Video-Based Running Water Animation in Chinese Painting Style

Ralph Martin

Feb. 1, 2009

This paper presents a novel algorithm for synthesizing animations of running water, such as waterfalls and rivers, in the style of Chinese paintings, for applications such as cartoon making.

Accessible haptic technology for drug design applications

Nick Avis (Former Staff Member)

Feb. 1, 2009

Structure-based drug design is a creative process that displays several features that make it closer to human reasoning than to machine automation.

AsAsymmetric Tensor Field Visualization for Surfaces

Robert S Laramee, Huaizhong Zhang

Feb. 1, 2009

The gradient of a velocity vector field is an asymmetric tensor field which can provide critical insight that is difficult to infer from traditional trajectory-based vector field visualization techniques.

Vectorizing Cartoon Animations

Ralph Martin

Jan. 9, 2009

We present a system for vectorizing 2D raster format cartoon animations.

Expressive Line Drawings of Human Faces from Range Images

Ralph Martin, Paul Rosin

Jan. 1, 2009

In this paper we propose a novel technique to extract features from a range image and use them to produce a 3D pen-and-ink style portrait similar to a traditional artistic drawing.

Noise Analysis and Synthesis for 3D Laser Depth Scanners

Xianfang Sun, Paul Rosin, Ralph Martin

Nov. 14, 2008

This paper analyses the noise present in range data measured by a Konica Minolta Vivid 910 scanner, in order to better characterise real scanner noise.