From the Lab
A Stained Glass Image Filter
Conference Paper
Abstract
Medieval stained glass windows are a stylized artform that has not previously been thoroughly treated in the computer graphics literature. In this paper, we present an automated method for transforming an arbitrary image into a stained-glass version of that image. The key issues in designing a stained glass window are the tile boundaries and tile colors. We use erosion and dilation operators to manipulate and smooth an initial region segmentation tiling; we choose tile colors from the palette of heraldic tinctures; and finally, we render a displacement-mapped plane to obtain our final image.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mould:2003:SGI:882404.882407,
author = {Mould, David},
title = {A Stained Glass Image Filter},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering},
series = {EGRW '03},
year = {2003},
isbn = {3-905673-03-7},
location = {Leuven, Belgium},
pages = {20--25},
numpages = {6},
url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=882404.882407},
acmid = {882407},
publisher = {Eurographics Association},
address = {Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland, Switzerland},
}