Solid Mathematical Marbling

IEEE Comput Graph Appl. 2017 Mar-Apr;37(2):90-98. doi: 10.1109/MCG.2016.42. Epub 2016 May 25.

Abstract

Years of research have been devoted to computer-generated 2D marbling, whereas 3D marbling has yet to be explored. The proposed mathematical marbling of 3D solids supports a compact random-access vector representation, creating solid marbling textures by composing closed-form 3D pattern tool functions. The resulting representation is feature-preserving and resolution-independent, and it consumes very little memory. To facilitate the solid-marbling texture authoring process, the authors also developed an intuitive user interface and a genetic algorithm.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't