Official repository for the Eurographics 2018 paper
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@article{Birsak2018-SA,
title = "String Art: Towards Computational Fabrication of String
Images",
author = "Michael Birsak and Florian Rist and Peter Wonka and
Przemyslaw Musialski",
year = "2018",
abstract = "In this paper we propose a novel method for the automatic
computation and digital fabrication of artistic string
images. String art is a technique used by artists for the
creation of abstracted images which are composed of straight
lines of strings ten- sioned between pins distributed on a
frame. Together the strings fuse to a perceptible image.
Traditionally, artists craft such images manually in a
highly sophisticated and tedious design process. To achieve
this goal fully automatically we propose a computational
setup driven by a discrete optimization algorithm which
takes an ordinary picture as input and converts it into a
connected graph of strings that tries to reassemble the
input image best possibly. Furthermore, we propose a
hardware setup for automatic digital fabrication of these
images using an industrial robot that spans the strings.
Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of our approach by
generating and fabricating a set of real string art images.",
month = apr,
journal = "Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS 2018)",
volume = "37",
number = "2",
doi = "10.1111/cgf.13359",
pages = "accepted",
pages = "263--274",
URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2018/Birsak2018-SA/",
}