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CS 395: Adv. Computer Graphics. This is NPR: Non-Photorealistic Rendering Jack Tumblin jet@cs.northwestern.edu. Big Ideas in NPR. Fine Art. What is the goal of computer graphics? ‘A perfect simulation of light transport’? No... ‘The best picture for every task’ ?. Drawings,
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CS 395: Adv. Computer Graphics This is NPR:Non-Photorealistic Rendering Jack Tumblin jet@cs.northwestern.edu
Big Ideas in NPR Fine Art • What is the goal of computer graphics? • ‘A perfect simulation of light transport’? No... • ‘The best picture for every task’ ? Drawings, illustrations, paintings... All Great Pictures Optical Images (photos, etc.)
Big Ideas in NPR • What can artists offer us? Can we help them? • Imitation (theft): Simulate existing artistic media • paint, charcoal, pencil, watercolor, marble, • Imitation (theft): Simulate artistic conventions • ‘learn to draw’ books • machine learning on works of art • analysis of working artists • What can we learn from the human visual system?
Simulated Watercolor (1997) Simulate paper, water, fluid diffusion/soaking, drying,... “Computer Generated Watercolor” Curtis,Anderson, Seims, Fleischer,Salesin SIGGRAPH`97
Simulated Watercolor Faster: blots/splats...
Pencil Simulation: Sousa 2000 Sousa, M. C. and Buchanan, J. W.Observational Model of Graphite Pencil Materials.Computer Graphics Forum, 19(1):27--49, 2000.
‘Toon’ Shaders Long history; Levoy’77, ...
3D-Guided, Semantic NPR Kowalski et al, “Art-Based Rendering” SIGGRAPH`99
Artistic Styles: Herzmann2000 Machine learning, Image analogies, etc....
Artistic Styles: Herzmann2000 Machine learning, Image analogies, etc....
More NPR Resources • Great on-line surveys / tutorials: Craig Reynolds http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr/ • Great Book:“Non-Photorealistic Rendering” (2001) Bruce Gooch and Amy Gooch, AK Peters • Great Conference:ACM NPAR: Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering • Great Online Demos: Google finds most of them... • Great Papers: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs