Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded Images
Images and movies
See also
Online video
Windows binaries and source code
You can download our windows implementation of the Diffusion Curves drawing tool!
Don't hesitate to send us your creations (.png and .xml), we will add them in the image gallery!
Warning: you will need a recent graphic card (GeForce 6800 or higher) to be able to run the software.
Henry Korol did a very neat implementation of Diffusion Curves. You can download it here.
Additional documents
We have presented the Diffusion Curves as a poster in the Marie Curie Conference in Barcelona, 2008.
Some additional details on our Poisson solver implementation are available in these notes.
Related papers
Stefan Jeschke and co-authors propose a novel solver that
computes diffusion curves images at high accuracy and speed.
They also show how to use diffusion curves to render
surface details.
Recently, Bezerra et al. presented a number of adaptations to diffusion curves that constrain how color is spread across the image.
Image gallery
Manually drawn
Automatic vectorization
BibTex references
@InProceedings\{OBWBTS08, author = "Orzan, Alexandrina and Bousseau, Adrien and Winnem{\"o}ller, Holger and Barla, Pascal and Thollot, Jo{\"e}lle and Salesin, David", title = "Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded Images", booktitle = "ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008)", volume = "27", year = "2008", url = "http://artis.inrialpes.fr/Publications/2008/OBWBTS08" }