Vignette: Interactive Texture Design and Manipulation with Freeform Gestures for Pen-and-Ink Illustration

Vignette: Interactive Texture Design and Manipulation with Freeform Gestures for Pen-and-Ink Illustration

Authors

Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Takeo Igarashi, Shengdong Zhao, Richard C. Davis

Paper

Vignette: Interactive Texture Design and Manipulation with Freeform Gestures for Pen-and-Ink IllustrationDownload

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Abstract

Vignette is an interactive system that facilitates texture creation in pen-and-ink illustrations. Unlike existing systems, Vignette preserves illustrators’ workflow and style: users draw a fraction of a texture and use gestures to automatically fill regions with the texture. We currently support both 1D and 2D synthesis with stitching. Our system also has interactive refinement and editing capabilities to provide a higher level texture control, which helps artists achieve their desired vision. A user study with professional artists shows that Vignette makes the process of illustration more enjoyable and that first time users can create rich textures from scratch within minutes.

Author Keywords

Pen and ink illustration, stroke synthesis, creativity

ACM Classification Keywords

H.5.2 [Information Interfaces And Presentation]: User Interfaces – Interaction styles;

General Terms

Design, Experimentation, Human Factors

Shen

Shen is an HCI professor at the National University of Singapore working on realizing his vision of HeadsUp Computing, a new Interaction paradigm that can transform the way we live and interact with computers. In his free time, Shen loves to read, run, spend time with family and friends, and explore nature.

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