CS779: NPR Assignment

Present a Non-Photorealistic Rendering Paper

1. Choose a paper related to Stylized, or Non-Photorealistic, Rendering. More on this below.
2. Read it thoroughly and track references so that you can present the ideas and answer any questions on it.
3. Prepare a 20 minute technical talk about the paper. Hints abound on this task. Your talk should look like a conference-style presentation of the paper. Discuss your talk with Prof. Chenney and practice, particularly to estimate how long your talk will take.
4. Present your paper on March 28 or 30, or April 1, 5 or 6. Scheduling will be done by Prof Chenney with the aim of finding coherent sets of papers.

Grading

This is an individual assignment worth approximately 20% of your grade. The grade is based on how well you convey the essence of the paper, how well you appear to understand the contents, and your ability to give a talk, including timing and organization.

Presentations

The presentations will be 20 minutes each, given in class using equipment available in the room (fixed computer, laptop connection, video). You must run to time, or you will be cut off. Typically, it takes about 2 minutes for each slide, so your talk should have at most 10 slides.

Schedule

Your paper may have video, on the web or on a VHS tape or DVD that Prof. Chenney has in his possession. Ask Prof. Chenney about video when you choose your paper.

Monday March 28

• Prof Chenney: "Comprehensible Rendering of 3-D Shapes", Saito and Takahashi, SIGGRAPH 90, 197--206.
• Arup Dutta: "Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Multiple Sizes", Aaron Hertzmann, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98, pp 453-460, 1998.
• Brandon Ellenberger: "An algorithm for automatic painterly rendering based on local source image approximation", Michio Shiraishi and Yasushi Yamaguchi, NPAR 2001, pp 53-58.

Wednesday March 30

• Leo Chao: "Stylized rendering techniques for scalable real-time 3D animation", Adam Lake, Carl Marshall, Mark Harris and Marc Blackstein, NPAR 2001, pp. 13-20.
• Evan Nowak: "Computer-Generated Pen-and-Ink Illustration of Trees", Oliver Deussen and Thomas Strothotte, SIGGRAPH 2000, pp 13-18, 2000.
• Brian Hackbarth: "Sketchy Drawings", Marc Nienhaus and Jurgen Dollner, Proceedings of AfriGraph, pp 73-81, 2004.

Friday April 1

• Scott Finley: "Art-Based Rendering of Fur, Grass, and Trees", Kowalski, M.A., Markosian, L., Northrop, J.D., Bourdev, L., Barzel, R., Holden, L.S., and Hughes, J.F., SIGGRAPH 99, 1999
• Tom Brunet: "A Non-Photorealistic Lighting Model for Automatic Technical Illustration", Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Shirley and Elaine Cohen, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98, pp 447-452, 1998.
• Chris Olsen: "Computer-Generated Watercolor", Cassidy J. Curtis, Sean E. Anderson, Joshua E. Seims, Kurt W. Fleischer and David H. Salesin. SIGGRAPH 97, pp 421-430, 2001.

Monday April 4

• Feng Liu: "Processing Images and Video for an Impressionist Effect", Peter Litwinowicz, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 97, pp 407-414, 1997.
• Greg Cipriano: "Painterly Rendering for Animation", Barbara J. Meier, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 96, pp 477-484, 1996.
• Jared Sohn: "Cartoon Rendering of Smoke Animations", Andrew Selle, Alex Mohr and Stephen Chenney, Proceedings of NPAR 2004, pp 57-60.

Wednesday April 6

• Kael Greco: "Real-Time Hatching", Emil Praun, Hugues Hoppe, Matthew Webb and Adam Finkelstein. SIGGRAPH 2001.
• Eric Jackowski: "HijackGL: Reconstructing from Streams for Stylized Rendering", Alex Mohr and Michael Gleicher, Proceedings of NPAR 2002, pp 13-20, 2002.
• David Kerman: "WYSIWYG NPR: Drawing Strokes Directly on 3D Models", Robert D. Kalnins, Lee Markosian, Barbara J. Meier, Michael A. Kowalski, Joseph C. Lee, Philip L. Davidson, Matthew Webb, John F. Hughes, and Adam Finkelstein. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002, July 2002.