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TriMesh2

Time for a quick update. Last week, we decided to focus on the two papers which I found the most interesting: Suggestive Contours and Exaggerated Shading. It was time to cook up an OpenGL up to display contours, and later on suggestive contours. This implied I had to get started …

More NPR papers

I’ve read some remaining papers about Non-Photorealistic Rendering. The first one was Image Analogies by A. Hertzmann from Microsoft Research. It describes a framework to process images, where the processing algorithm is derived from a given (set of) A and A’ images, where A is the original image and A’ …

Exaggerated Shading for Depicting Shape and Detail

The second paper I’ve read for my thesis about Non-Photorealistic Rendering is Exaggerated Shading for Depicting Shape and Detail by Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Michael Burns and Doug DeCarlo. Much like last paper, NPR is applied to bring out more detail/shape suggestion in a given model.

Suggestive Contours for Conveying Shape

After my first meeting about my thesis, I got the assignment to read a few papers (most of them from SIGGRAPH talks) about various topics in Non-Photorealistic Rendering. It was a good opportunity to put down the (otherwise excellent) Accelerated C++ and dive into the wonderful world of research papers. …

Thesis section

As you can see, this blog now contains a section completely dedicated to my thesis work. It’s recommended for students to report weekly using a personal blog. All thesis-related posts will be categorized in the category (duh) Thesis. If you don’t see these pop up weekly, you are hereby fully …

Thesis subject: NPR

My thesis (which I’ll be working on next academic year) covers Non Photorealistic Rendering. Exciting and hard times ahead … My promotor is Philip Dutré of the CS department at the University of Leuven.