Sami Arpa    Abdullah Bulbul    Tolga Capin   Bulent Ozguc

Bilken University, Turkey

Cubism, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, was a breakthrough in art, influencing artists to abandon existing traditions. In this paper, we present a novel approach for cubist rendering of 3D synthetic environments. Rather than merely imitating cubist paintings, we apply the main principles of analytical cubism to 3D graphics rendering. In this respect, we develop a new cubist camera providing an extended view, and a perceptually based spatial imprecision technique that keeps the important regions of the scene within a certain area of the output. Additionally, several methods to provide a painterly style are applied. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our extending view method by comparing the visible face counts in the images rendered by the cubist camera model and the traditional perspective camera. Besides, we give an overall discussion of final results and apply user tests in which users compare our results very well with analytical cubist paintings but not synthetic cubist paintings.

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Sami Arpa, Abdullah Bulbul, Tolga Capin, Bulent Ozguc
Perceptual 3D rendering based on principles of analytical cubism
Computers & Graphics 36.8 (2012): 991-1004

			
  @article{arpa2012perceptual,
  	title={Perceptual 3D rendering based on principles of analytical cubism},
  	author={Arpa, Sami and Bulbul, Abdullah and Capin, Tolga and Ozguc, Bulent},
  	journal={Computers \& Graphics},
  	volume={36},
 	number={8},
  	pages={991--1004},
  	year={2012},
  	publisher={Elsevier}
  }

This work is supported by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK, Project number: 110E029). The authors would like to thank Gaye Çulcuoğlu, Ercan Sağlam, Dominique Tezgör-Kassab, Agnieszka Srokosz, Adam Pekalski and Dilek Kaya from Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture for their invaluable comments and suggestions, and all subjects who participated in the user studies..