Decoupling strokes and high-level attributes for interactive traditional drawing

  • Authors:
  • Frédo Durand;Victor Ostromoukhov;Mathieu Miller;François Duranleau;Julie Dorsey

  • Affiliations:
  • Lab for Computer Science, MIT;Lab for Computer Science, MIT and Université de Montréal, LIGUM;Université de Montréal, LIGUM;Université de Montréal, LIGUM;Lab for Computer Science, MIT

  • Venue:
  • EGWR'01 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics conference on Rendering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present an interactive system, which allows the user to produce drawings in a variety of traditional styles. It takes as input an image and performs semi-automatic tonal modeling. Our system shifts tedious technical aspects to the computer side, while providing the user with freedom on the creative and aesthetic side. The user has low-level control over stroke placement, and high-level control over the tone, smudging and amount of detail. The drawing is rendered in real-time. The basic component is a thresholding model of strokes that can simulate a large class of styles (e.g. pencil, charcoal, engraving). It provides a controllable simulation of the variation of pencil pressure or stroke thickness traditionally used in tonal modeling. We introduce a novel fast equilibration approach for the resulting thresholding structure. The user can specify smudging and control the amount of detail over each part of the drawing.