We present a novel framework for non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) based on view-dependent geometric simplification techniques. Following a common thread in NPR research, we represent the model as a system of particles, which will be rendered as strokes in the final image and which may optionally overlay a polygonal surface. Our primary contribution is the use of a hierarchical view-dependent ...

Stippling is an artistic rendering technique where shading and texture is given by placing points or stipples on the canvas until the desired darkness is achieved. Computergenerated stippling has focused on producing high quality 2D renditions for print media, while stippling of 3D models in animations has received little attention. After describing current advances in stippling for print media...

Many 3D scanning systems and software tools are currently available, but a comparative study of their actual precision and robustness still lacks. To this end, this paper presents a comparison of such systems, taking into consideration three alignment tools and two merging tools for the management of scanned data. The comparison will be based on the scanning and reconstruction of two relatively...

We are made of many parts and many types of parts. Many of these are alive, and as the study of the human microbiome has recently revealed, most are not human. I explore the microbiome as an artistic medium and the questions it raises about identity, since the microbiome blurs the boundary between organism and environment, figure and ground. I cultivated my microbiome and others inhabiting my e...

Richard Cytowic has argued that synesthetic experimentation by modern artists was based on deliberate contrivances of sensory fusion and not on involuntary experiences of cross-modal association. He has placed artistic experiments with sensory fusion outside the domain of synesthesia research. Artistic experiments, though historically interesting, are considered irrelevant for the study of syne...

To test the hypothesis that pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological, this study investigated the different functional mechanisms between aesthetic appreciation of artistic and popular music using fMRI. 18 male non-musicians were scanned while they performed an aesthetic rating task for excerpts of artistic music, popular music and musical note...

This paper presents an artistic rendering system for generating 3D images of Chinese paintings using graphics hardware. The user can adjust suitable parameters flexibly to generate different brush styles as his/her hobby, and see rendering results in real time. In this system, we propose a hardware-accelerated method to draw Chinese painting strokes efficiently along visible silhouettes. Three-...

This paper presents an algorithm and its applications for artistic rendering of recorded video data following ideas of non-photorealistic rendering. The proposed algorithm does not only work on a variety of artistic rendering styles for static photography but it can also be applied to the creation of artistic videos. Cartoon-like and comic-like styles are the two artistic styles considered in t...