Exploring sketch beautification techniques

  • Authors:
  • Beirong Wang;Jian Sun;Beryl Plimmer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • CHINZ '05 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand chapter's international conference on Computer-human interaction: making CHI natural
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Beautification of vague, imprecise sketchy ink input is an interesting area for exploration, especially with the emergence of pen-based systems, such as the Tablet PC. Fifty percent of the total time spent creating drawings on a computer is on formalisation operations [3], why waste this time when the same result is achievable via recognition and beautification techniques? We examined beautification and its value in supporting the design process by prototyping a design tool incorporating several beautification techniques. The following is a description of the design, construction and evaluation of our grid based design environment.