Learning hatching for pen-and-ink illustration of surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Evangelos Kalogerakis;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Simon Breslav;Aaron Hertzmann

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto and Stanford University;University of Toronto, Disney Research Zurich, and University of Montreal;University of Toronto and Autodesk Research;University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This article presents an algorithm for learning hatching styles from line drawings. An artist draws a single hatching illustration of a 3D object. Her strokes are analyzed to extract the following per-pixel properties: hatching level (hatching, cross-hatching, or no strokes), stroke orientation, spacing, intensity, length, and thickness. A mapping is learned from input geometric, contextual, and shading features of the 3D object to these hatching properties, using classification, regression, and clustering techniques. Then, a new illustration can be generated in the artist's style, as follows. First, given a new view of a 3D object, the learned mapping is applied to synthesize target stroke properties for each pixel. A new illustration is then generated by synthesizing hatching strokes according to the target properties.