
Whole-Cloth Quilting Patterns from Photographs

Abstract
Whole-cloth quilts are decorative and functional artifacts made of plain cloth embellished with complicated stitching patterns. We describe a method that can automatically create a sewing pattern for a whole-cloth quilt from a photograph. Our technique begins with a segmented image, extracts desired and optional edges, and creates a continuous sewing path by approximately solving the Rural Postman Problem (RPP). In addition to many example quilts, we provide visual and numerical comparisons to previous single- line illustration approaches.
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Chenxi Liu, Jessica Hodgins, and James McCann. Whole-cloth quilting patterns from photographs. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR). July 2017.
@inproceedings{autoquilt2017,
author = {Chenxi Liu and Jessica Hodgins and James McCann},
title = {Whole-cloth Quilting Patterns from Photographs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium
on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering},
series = {NPAR '17},
month = {July},
year = {2017},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3092919.3092925},
doi = {10.1145/3092919.3092925},
acmid = {3092925}
}