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Whole-cloth quilting patterns from photographs

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Whole-cloth quilts are decorative and functional artifacts made of plain cloth embellished with complicated stitching patterns. We describe a method that can automatically create a sewing pattern for a whole-cloth quilt from a photograph. Our technique begins with a segmented image, extracts desired and optional edges, and creates a continuous sewing path by approximately solving the Rural Postman Problem (RPP). In addition to many example quilts, we provide visual and numerical comparisons to previous singleline illustration approaches.

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NPAR '17: Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
July 2017
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DOI:10.1145/3092919
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  2. quilting
  3. rural postman problem
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