Re: [Inkscape-devel] Automatic Engraving

On 6/24/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:

On 6/23/07, Tom Lechner <lechner@...1707...> wrote:

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http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~ostrom/publications/pdf/SIGGRAPH99_FacialEngrav...

Looks like my enthusiasm was premature. After reading the entire paper, I see that the most difficult part - separating the image into areas and choosing the shape and direction of engraving lines - is still done entirely manually in this approach. It only automates the rest of the tasks which are relatively trivial - interpolating to get equidistant curves and varying line width to achieve shading. So, while this paper contains some useful insights, it's far from being an "automatic engraver" which would work without human intervention.