期刊论文、会议论文

Zou, Changqing;Cao, Junjie

英文

ACM Transactions on Graphics

0730-0301

2016

35

4

1-12

10.1145/2897824.2925887

We first thank all the reviewers for their valuable comments and feedback. We owe our gratitude to Mr. Dan Fleming for his creative work which inspired our research and for his generosity in allowing us to use images of his works in this paper. Thanks also go to Daniel Cohen-Or and Nicholas Vining for proofreading, as well as to students from Hengyang Normal University and Dalian University of Technology for their hard work on data collection and labeling. This work is supported in part by grants from NSERC Canada, the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61502153), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61363048), and the Program of Key Disciplines in Hunan Province.

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A calligram is an arrangement of words or letters that creates a visual image, and a compact calligram fits one word into a 2D shape. We introduce a fully automatic method for the generation of legible compact calligrams which provides a balance between conveying the input shape, legibility, and aesthetics. Our method has three key elements: a path generation step which computes a global layout path suitable for embedding the input word; an alignment step to place the letters so as to achieve feature alignment between letter and shape protrusio...