TY - JOUR
T1 - String art: towards computational fabrication of string images
AU - Birsak, Michael
AU - Rist, Florian
AU - Wonka, Peter
AU - Musialski, Przemyslaw
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-04-23
Acknowledgements: We thank the reviewers for their helpful suggestions. This research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF P27972-N31) and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF ICT15-082).
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/656489
UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/cgf.13359
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051436357&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/cgf.13359
DO - 10.1111/cgf.13359
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051436357
VL - 37
SP - 263
EP - 274
JO - Computer Graphics Forum
JF - Computer Graphics Forum
SN - 0167-7055
IS - 2
ER -