Zhengzheng Yin, Yao Jin, Zhijian Fang, Yun Zhang, Huaxiong Zhang, Jiu Zhou, Lili He
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Abstract
Computer-generated aesthetic patterns are widely used as design materials in various fields. The most common methods use fractals or dynamical systems as basic tools to create various patterns. To enhance aesthetics and controllability, some researchers have introduced symmetric layouts along with these tools. One popular strategy employs dynamical systems compatible with symmetries that construct functions with the desired symmetries. However, these are typically confined to simple planar symmetries. The other generates symmetrical patterns under the constraints of tilings. Although it is slightly more flexible, it is restricted to small ranges of tilings and lacks textural variations. Thus, we proposed a new approach for generating aesthetic patterns by symmetrizing quasi-regular patterns using general k-uniform tilings. We adopted a unified strategy to construct invariant mappings for k-uniform tilings that can eliminate texture seams across the tiling edges. Furthermore, we constructed three types of symmetries associated with the patterns: dihedral, rotational, and reflection symmetries. The proposed method can be easily implemented using GPU shaders and is highly efficient and suitable for complicated tiling with regular polygons. Experiments demonstrated the advantages of our method over state-of-the-art methods in terms of flexibility in controlling the generation of patterns with various parameters as well as the diversity of textures and styles.
期刊介绍:
Computational Visual Media is a peer-reviewed open access journal. It publishes original high-quality research papers and significant review articles on novel ideas, methods, and systems relevant to visual media.
Computational Visual Media publishes articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas:
• Editing and composition of visual media
• Geometric computing for images and video
• Geometry modeling and processing
• Machine learning for visual media
• Physically based animation
• Realistic rendering
• Recognition and understanding of visual media
• Visual computing for robotics
• Visualization and visual analytics
Other interdisciplinary research into visual media that combines aspects of computer graphics, computer vision, image and video processing, geometric computing, and machine learning is also within the journal''s scope.
This is an open access journal, published quarterly by Tsinghua University Press and Springer. The open access fees (article-processing charges) are fully sponsored by Tsinghua University, China. Authors can publish in the journal without any additional charges.