Title: Synthesis of cartoon fire based on hand-drawn samples

Authors: Yi Gu, Jinhui Yu, Ren Peng

Addresses: State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. ' State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. ' College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Abstract: In this paper we present an approach for synthesising and editing cartoon fire series based on hand-drawn samples. Our approach first extracts outlines of hand-drawn cartoon fire series and, based on the central reference skeleton, synthesises fire of arbitrary length by high level control on flame skeletons. With our approach users may edit cartoon fire series to achieve effects such as fire spreading and fire blown by wind from the side.

Keywords: cartoon fire; image synthesis; computer animation; hand drawings; flame skeletons; fire spreading; wind blown fire; cartoons.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2010.034151

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2010 Vol.38 No.1/2/3, pp.157 - 162

Received: 05 Aug 2008
Accepted: 15 Jan 2009
Published online: 16 Jul 2010 *

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