Double Meandering Algorithm: From Drawing Game to Automated Animation

Gao, Shelley; Pullen, Lucy; Gooch,  Amy A.

Double Meandering Algorithm: From Drawing Game to Automated Animation

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055-062.pdf (906.14 KB)

Date

2011

Authors

Gao, Shelley
Pullen, Lucy
Gooch, Amy A.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We introduce artist Lucy Pullen's Double Meandering Algorithm, first in its original form as a pen-and-paper drawing algorithm and then as a procedurally generated animation. We utilize a chain of cubic Bézier curves to represent the characteristic spiraling line, assigning each control point according to a pseudo-randomized algorithm. The resulting curves are then animated segment by segment, reflecting the artist's process of creating the pen-and-paper drawing. By digitizing the Double Meandering Line drawing, we can also reveal the process of creation through animation, granting us the ability to exhibit a fundamental part of the drawing that is lost in the traditional pen-and-paper presentation.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH11/055-062
,
booktitle = {Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
},
editor = {Douglas Cunningham and Tobias Isenberg
},
title = {{Double Meandering Algorithm: From Drawing Game to Automated Animation
}},
author = {Gao, Shelley and 
Pullen, Lucy and 
Gooch,  Amy A.
},
year = {2011
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1816-0859
},
ISBN = {978-1-4503-0908-0
},
DOI = {10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH11/055-062
}
}