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Where do people draw lines?

Authors:

Forrester Cole,

Aleksey Golovinskiy,

Alex Limpaecher,

Heather Stoddart Barros,

Adam Finkelstein,

Thomas Funkhouser,

Szymon RusinkiewiczAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 27, Issue 3

Article No.: 88, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/1360612.1360687

Published: 01 August 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a study in which artists made line drawings intended to convey specific 3D shapes. The study was designed so that drawings could be registered with rendered images of 3D models, supporting an analysis of how well the locations of the artists' lines correlate with other artists', with current computer graphics line definitions, and with the underlying differential properties of the 3D surface. Lines drawn by artists in this study largely overlapped one another (75% are within 1mm of another line), particularly along the occluding contours of the object. Most lines that do not overlap contours overlap large gradients of the image intensity, and correlate strongly with predictions made by recent line drawing algorithms in computer graphics. 14% were not well described by any of the local properties considered in this study. The result of our work is a publicly available data set of aligned drawings, an analysis of where lines appear in that data set based on local properties of 3D models, and algorithms to predict where artists will draw lines for new scenes.

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Index Terms

Where do people draw lines?
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
    2. Shape modeling
      1. Parametric curve and surface models
      2. Volumetric models
2. Theory of computation
  1. Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
    1. Computational geometry

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DOI:10.1145/1360612

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