Fast Rendering of Image Mosaics and ASCII Art

An image mosaic is an assembly of a large number of small images, usually called tiles, taken from a specific dictionary/codebook. When viewed as a whole, the appearance of a single large... Read more »

A Survey of Physically Based Simulation of Cuts in Deformable Bodies

Virtual cutting of deformable bodies has been an important and active research topic in physically based modelling and simulation for more than a decade. A particular challenge in virtual cutting is the... Read more »

Position-Based Skinning for Soft Articulated Characters

In this paper, we introduce a two-layered approach addressing the problem of creating believable mesh-based skin deformation. For each frame, the skin is first deformed with a classic linear blend skinning approach,... Read more »

Structure-Aware Mesh Decimation

We present a novel approach for the decimation of triangle surface meshes. Our algorithm takes as input a triangle surface mesh and a set of planar proxies detected in a pre-processing analysis... Read more »

Editorial

Read more »

Issue Information

Read more »

Shading Curves: Vector-Based Drawing With Explicit Gradient Control

A challenge in vector graphics is to define primitives that offer flexible manipulation of colour gradients. We propose a new primitive, called a shading curve, that supports explicit and local gradient control.... Read more »

Separable Subsurface Scattering

In this paper, we propose two real-time models for simulating subsurface scattering for a large variety of translucent materials, which need under 0.5 ms per frame to execute. This makes them a... Read more »

Saliency-Preserving Slicing Optimization for Effective 3D Printing

We present an adaptive slicing scheme for reducing the manufacturing time for 3D printing systems. Based on a new saliency-based metric, our method optimizes the thicknesses of slicing layers to save printing... Read more »

CorrelatedMultiples: Spatially Coherent Small Multiples With Constrained Multi-Dimensional Scaling

Displaying small multiples is a popular method for visually summarizing and comparing multiple facets of a complex data set. If the correlations between the data are not considered when displaying the multiples,... Read more »