Figurative Tours and Braids

Year: 2015 Authors: Robert Bosch; Tom Wexler

Core claim

Grayscale images can be rendered as figurative tours or braids by optimizing grid-edge selections to match block brightness values.

Topics

image approximation, Hamiltonian cycle, integer programming, graph drawing, line art

Domains

combinatorial optimization, Traveling Salesman Problem, integer programming, graph theory, algorithmic art, generative drawing, visualization, non-photorealistic rendering

Methods

grid partitioning, brightness averaging, trace weighting, integer programming formulation, Gurobi optimization

Media

grayscale images, grid points, Postscript, Bezier curves, line segments

Source status

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