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Whole-Cloth Quilting Patterns from Photographs

quilting pattern generation pipeline

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}
}

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