Suggested Topics

Suggested Topics

This list comprises a number of topic descriptions for your assignment. These are suggestions, you are welcome to suggest your own topic by contacting the instructor.

• simulation of a specific traditional medium
  • watercolor (Friot-Hannecart Romain and Nhouyvanisvong Phonesavane)
    • Computer-Generated Watercolor
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/258734.258896)
    • Real-Time Watercolor Illustrations of Plants Using a Blurred Depth Test
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124728.1124732)
    • Watercolor Illustrations of CAD Data
      (http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH08/057-063)
    • Real-Time Watercolor Painting on a Distributed Paper Model
      (http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CGI.2004.84)
    • Interactive Watercolor Rendering with Temporal Coherence and Abstraction
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124728.1124751)
    • Video Watercolorization using Bidirectional Texture Advection
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1275808.1276507)
  • oil painting/painterly rendering (Yvain Giffoni and Jaafar Madih)
    • Painterly Rendering for Animation
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/237170.237288)
    • Processing Images and Video for an Impressionist Effect
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/258734.258893)
    • Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Multiple Sizes
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/280814.280951)
    • Abstracted Painterly Renderings Using Eye-Tracking Data
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/508530.508544)
    • Image and Video Based Painterly Animation
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/987657.987676)
    • Brush Stroke Ordering Techniques for Painterly Rendering
      (http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH10/059-066)
    • Interactive Vector Fields for Painterly Rendering
      (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1089508.1089548)
    • Painterly Animation Using Motion Maps
      (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gmod.2007.06.001)
    • Stroke Based Painterly Rendering
      (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4519-6_1)
    • A 3D Painterly Rendering Framework for Photon Mapping
      (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/page/jise/2010/201007_14.html)
  • pencil drawing
  • crayons
• NPR in (medical) illustrative visualization (Lonni Besançon and Thomas Cresson)
  • Style Transfer Functions for Illustrative Volume Rendering
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01095.x)
  • Real-Time Illustration of Vascular Structures
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2006.172)
  • Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2009.138)
  • Line Drawings from Volume Data
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1073204.1073222)
  • Volume Illustration: Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Volume Models
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VISUAL.2000.885694)
  • Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2006.115)
  • Enhancing Depth-Perception with Flexible Volumetric Halos
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2007.70555)
  • etc. (other specific illustrative visualization techniques)
• a specific real-time technique using graphics hardware programming
  • the real-time/hardware-acceleration sessions at the NPAR conferences (2002, 2004, 2006)
  • Hardware-Determined Feature Edges
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/987657.987663)
• non-photorealistic modeling (Zhu Zijian and Chen Ting)
  • Teddy: a sketching interface for 3D freeform design
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/311535.311602)
  • 3D Collage: Expressive Non-Realistic Modeling
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1274871.1274873)
  • Digital bas-relief from 3D scenes
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1276377.1276417)
  • Modeling Expressive 3D Caricatures
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1186223.1186299)
  • Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1274871.1274883)
  • Automatic Expressive Deformations for Implying and Stylizing Motion
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00371-007-0125-8)
  • V-shape folding shapes (SIGGRAPH 2011)
  • Non-realistic 3D object stylization
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2630099.2630102)
• NPR and abstraction
  • Stylization and Abstraction of Photographs
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/566654.566650)
  • Abstraction of 2D Shapes in Terms of Parts
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1572614.1572617)
  • X-Toon: An Extended Toon Shader
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124728.1124749)
  • Interactive Watercolor Rendering with Temporal Coherence and Abstraction
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124728.1124751)
  • Abstraction of Man-Made Shapes
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1618452.1618483)
  • Sisley the Abstract Painter
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1809939.1809951)
• distortion techniques for artistic and visualization applications
  • Ryan: Rendering your Animation Nonlinearly Projected
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/987657.987678)
  • Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/258734.258859)
  • NPR Lenses: Interactive Tools for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawings
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73214-3_2)
  • Single Camera Flexible Projection
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1274871.1274876)
  • Non-Linear Perspective Widgets for Creating Multiple-View Images
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1377980.1377995)
• rigid deformations
  • As-Rigid-as-Possible Shape Manipulation
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1073204.1073323)
  • Rigid Shape Interpolation Using Normal Equations
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1377980.1377993)
  • As-Rigid-as-Possible Image Registration for Hand-Drawn Cartoon Animations
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1572614.1572619)
• application of NPR techniques in games and/or movies (Matthieu Allie and Clément Zenou)
  • HijackGL: Reconstructing from Streams for Stylized Rendering
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/508530.508533)
  • Illustrative rendering in Team Fortress 2
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1274871.1274883)
  • Creating 3D Painterly Environments for Disney's Treasure Planet
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1242073.1242173)
  • Sable – A Painterly Renderer for Film Animation
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/965400.965479)
  • several additional short papers and presentations at SIGGRAPH
  • Course at SIGGRAPH 2010
    (http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/courses/SRG10/)

* binary shading (pen-and-ink) ** Calligraphic Packing
(http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1268517.1268527) ** Binary Shading Using Appearance and Geometry
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01712.x) ** Semi-Automatic Stencil Creation Through Error Minimization
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1377980.1377989) ** Artistic Thresholding
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1377980.1377990) ** Stylized Black and White Images from Photographs
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1377980.1377991)

• non-photorealistic illumination (Vincent Bellec and Vincent Justin)
  • A Non-Photorealistic Lighting Model for Automatic Technical Illustration
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/280814.280950)
  • Cartoon-Looking Rendering of 3D-Scenes
    (http://www.antisphere.com/Research/Cartoon.php)
  • Lumo: Illumination for Cel Animation
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/508530.508538)
  • Shadows for Cel Animation
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/344779.345073)
  • Stylized Highlights for Cartoon Rendering and Animation
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2003.1210865)
  • Tweakable Light and Shade for Cartoon Animation
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124728.1124750)
  • Real-time Cartoon Rendering of Smoke
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1186415.1186446)
• text-based rendering
  • Calligraphic Packing
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1268517.1268527)
  • Digital Micrography
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2010324.1964995)
  • Artistic Screening
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/218380.218445)
  • more, see references
• NPR for Stereo Images (Benoit Testu and Maelle Chaptal)
  • Image-based Stereoscopic Painterly Rendering
    (http://www.ims.tuwien.ac.at/publication_detail.php?ims_id=138)
  • Image-Based Stereoscopic Stylization
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530314)
  • Stereoscopic Painting with Varying Levels of Detail
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.586702)
  • Computer Generated Stereoscopic Artwork
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH05/143-149)
  • Consistent Stylization and Painterly Rendering of Stereoscopic 3D Images
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/PE/NPAR/NPAR12/047-056)
  • Stereoscopic 3D Image Stylization
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2012.11.005)
• NPR and illustrative rendering using particle systems (Arthur Covanov and Thomas Lyet)
  • Particle-Based Non-Photorealistic Volume Visualization
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00371-007-0192-x)
  • View-Dependent Particles for Interactive Non-Photorealistic Rendering
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/780986.781005)
  • Pointillist and Glyph-Based Visualization of Nanoparticles in Formation
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis05/169-176)
  • Pointillist Video Stylization based on Particle Tracing
    (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1441-9)
  • Illustrative Volume Visualization Using GPU-Based Particle Systems
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.32)
  • GPU-Based Particle Systems for Illustrative Volume Rendering
    (http://www.bmia.bmt.tue.nl/Research/MVIAV/IVR/ivrrp/downloads/paper/2008_vgpbg_ivr_rvp.pdf)
• NPR/illustrative visualization and perception (Salma Hmeida and Julien Barascud)
  • Line Drawings and Perception
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1198555.1198577)
  • Perceptual and Artistic Principles for Effective Computer Depiction
    (http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~fredo/SIG02_ArtScience/)
  • Looking Through the Eye of the Painter from the Visual Cortex and Brightness Perception to Non-Photorealistic Rendering
    (http://wscg.zcu.cz/wscg2006/Papers_2006/Full/A89-full.pdf)
  • Evaluating Space Perception in NPR Immersive Environments
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/508530.508549)
  • Using NPR to Evaluate Perceptual Shape Cues in Dynamic Environments
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1274871.1274885)
  • Stylized Depiction of Images Based on Depth Perception
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1809939.1809952)
  • Combining Perception and Impressionist Techniques for Nonphotorealistic Visualization of Multidimensional Data
    (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/download/sig-course.01.pdf)
  • Perceptually-Based Brush Strokes for Nonphotorealistic Visualization
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/966131.966135)
  • Enhancing Perceived Depth in Images via Artistic Matting
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1012551.1012590)
  • Enhancing Depth-Perception with Flexible Volumetric Halos
    (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2007.70555)
  • Chromatic Shadows for Improved Perception
    (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2024676.2024694)
• a specific technique based on two or three self-chosen high-quality papers (i.e., from SIGGRAPH, EG, NPAR, VIS, or a journal)