Automated pebble mosaic stylization of images
Abstract Digital mosaics have usually used regular tiles, simulating historical tessellated mosaics. In this paper, we present a method for synthesizing pebble mosaics, a historical mosaic style in which the tiles are rounded pebbles. We address both the tiling problem, of distributing pebbles over...
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| description | Abstract Digital mosaics have usually used regular tiles, simulating historical tessellated mosaics. In this paper, we present a method for synthesizing pebble mosaics, a historical mosaic style in which the tiles are rounded pebbles. We address both the tiling problem, of distributing pebbles over the image plane so as to approximate the input image content, and the problem of geometry, creating a smooth rounded shape for each pebble. We adopt simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) to obtain elongated tiles conforming to image content, and smooth the resulting irregular shapes into shapes resembling pebble cross-sections. Then, we create an interior and exterior contour for each pebble and solve a Laplace equation over the region between them to obtain height-field geometry. The resulting pebble set approximates the input image while representing full geometry that can be rendered and textured for a highly detailed representation of a pebble mosaic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94dc907d5e304df5bfeda859fe52c80c2022-12-22T00:17:44ZengSpringerOpenComputational Visual Media2096-04332096-06622019-04-0151334410.1007/s41095-019-0129-0Automated pebble mosaic stylization of imagesLars Doyle0Forest Anderson1Ehren Choy2David Mould3Carleton UniversityCarleton UniversityCarleton UniversityCarleton UniversityAbstract Digital mosaics have usually used regular tiles, simulating historical tessellated mosaics. In this paper, we present a method for synthesizing pebble mosaics, a historical mosaic style in which the tiles are rounded pebbles. We address both the tiling problem, of distributing pebbles over the image plane so as to approximate the input image content, and the problem of geometry, creating a smooth rounded shape for each pebble. We adopt simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) to obtain elongated tiles conforming to image content, and smooth the resulting irregular shapes into shapes resembling pebble cross-sections. Then, we create an interior and exterior contour for each pebble and solve a Laplace equation over the region between them to obtain height-field geometry. The resulting pebble set approximates the input image while representing full geometry that can be rendered and textured for a highly detailed representation of a pebble mosaic.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41095-019-0129-0non-photorealistic renderingdigital mosaicsimage stylizationsegmentationimage processing |
| spellingShingle | Lars Doyle Forest Anderson Ehren Choy David Mould Automated pebble mosaic stylization of images Computational Visual Media non-photorealistic rendering digital mosaics image stylization segmentation image processing |
| title | Automated pebble mosaic stylization of images |
| title_full | Automated pebble mosaic stylization of images |
| title_fullStr | Automated pebble mosaic stylization of images |
| title_full_unstemmed | Automated pebble mosaic stylization of images |
| title_short | Automated pebble mosaic stylization of images |
| title_sort | automated pebble mosaic stylization of images |
| topic | non-photorealistic rendering digital mosaics image stylization segmentation image processing |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41095-019-0129-0 |
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