String Art: Towards Computational Fabrication of String Images
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Date
2018
Authors
Birsak, Michael
Rist, Florian
Wonka, Peter
Musialski, Przemyslaw
Rist, Florian
Wonka, Peter
Musialski, Przemyslaw
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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 tensioned 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.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.13359,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{String Art: Towards Computational Fabrication of String Images}},
author = {Birsak, Michael and Rist, Florian and Wonka, Peter and Musialski, Przemyslaw},
year = {2018},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.13359}
}