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Whole-cloth quilting patterns from photographs

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Jessica Hodgins,

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NPAR '17: Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3092919.3092925

Published: 29 July 2017 Publication History

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Whole-cloth quilts are decorative and functional artifacts made of plain cloth embellished with complicated stitching patterns. We describe a method that can automatically create a sewing pattern for a whole-cloth quilt from a photograph. Our technique begins with a segmented image, extracts desired and optional edges, and creates a continuous sewing path by approximately solving the Rural Postman Problem (RPP). In addition to many example quilts, we provide visual and numerical comparisons to previous singleline illustration approaches.

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Whole-cloth quilting patterns from photographs
1. Applied computing
  1. Operations research
    1. Computer-aided manufacturing
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Rendering
      1. Non-photorealistic rendering

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NPAR '17: Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

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DOI:10.1145/3092919

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