An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non-photorealistic Rendering

Yann Semet¹, Una-May O’Reilly², and Frédo Durand²

¹Opimization and Machine Learning Group, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France
yann.semet@tremplin-utc.net

²CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
unamay@csail.mit.edu
fredo@mit.edu
http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~semet/antsNPR

Abstract. We couple artificial ant and computer graphics techniques to create an approach to Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR). A user interactively takes turns with an artificial ant colony to transform a photograph into a stylized picture. In turn with the user specifying its control parameters, members of a colony of artificial ants scan the source image locally, following strong edges or wandering around flat zones, and draw marks on the canvas depending on their discoveries. Among a variety of obtained effects, two are painterly rendering and pencil sketching.

LNCS 3102, p. 188 ff.

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