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Turn Real Life Into A Cartoon
Saige writes "Ever wanted to see yourself in a cartoon? Before now, there were means to turn a single image into something cartoon-like, but some folks at Microsoft Research have come up with a method to turn a video into an animated cartoon. It's not up to doing it fully automated, as you have to hand-mark various parts of the video every 10 to 15 frames, but the video of the results is quite impressive."
does it run in Linux?
Sony has something similar with the EyeToy. It's doens't really make cartoons, but will put you live in the action of a video game. It probably woudn't be too hard for them to add some filters to "cartoonize" the video.
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Constant deal updates. Every 10 minutes!
I tinker occasionally with animation and despite all the technology we have today, if you are a 2D/cel animator it's still an extremly slow process. But fun.
Still running Windows ME, I take it... For as much as a bloated whale Win2k and XP are, BSOD is history.
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this? http://students.washington.edu/juew/
And he's currently doing P.K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly the same way.
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Anybody remember this guy?
This is one of the pioneers in computer graphics for a long time. You should remember him for his radiosity papers:
Cohen, M. F. and Greenberg, D. P., "The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution for Complex Environments", Computer Graphics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp 31-40, 1985.
Cohen, M. F., Chen, S. E., Wallace, J. R., and Greenberg, D. P., "A Progressive Refinement Approach to Fast Radiosity Image Generation", Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp 75-84, 1988.
And his book.
He even received SIGGRAPH award for his work
To counter your anecdote with mine, my work-inflicted PC running XP is very stable and I run all sorts of non-standard stuff on it. Occasional programs crap out (how the hell can a 'Save as...' dialogue box be 'Not Responding', when it's owner app has been quit???), but even iMovie4 has quit under OS X 10.3.
To summarise:
hated '95 - buggy and unstable.
Tolerate XP - stable.
Always love my Mac. Just because.
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If you read the fine article :) they say that a technique like this tends to produce a rather jittery, jumpy effect where backgrounds aren't sufficiently similar, and the noise on them moves around way too much to be aesthetically pleasing.
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As another poster mentioned, spontaneous rebooting is due to a 'feature' in Windows XP whereby the computer reboots rather than showing the proper BSOD.
To turn this 'feature' off, do the following:
1. Go to System Properties.
2. Go to the Advanced tab and click on the Settings button in the Startup and Recovery section.
3. Uncheck Automatically Restart.
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Indeed.
But somebody will come up with something better and release it under the GPL. And I'll use that.
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Yes, it has been done. Way back in the Amiga days, using V-Lab Motion for video capture/encoding and Digi-Paint offered a Arexx script pluggin so you could easily "oil-paint" a series of frames.. and before that electronically by people like "Nam June Paik" , Peer Bode, and Sherry Miller Hocking. you might enjoy some of the art here http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/
... Microsoft researchers do some decent research. Not all Slashdotters are anti-Microsoft just because they can be; a lot of us don't actually like their business practices or their released software or similar.
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No recent NVIDIA WHQL drivers?
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_ No tes.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_61.76.htm
Released July 20, 2004. Not the very latest driver, but it is definately "recent". Hell, it's less then 30 days old.
Or how about ATI?
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_46_Release
Released June 9, 2004. Also not the latest (the latest is 4.7) but not exactly old.
So, there are indeed recent WHQL 3D drivers for both ATI and NVIDIA cards. Moreover, their new drivers are usually as good as the WHQL drivers.
you would need to mask out the background and have that seperatly, so it stayed static, and apply the filter only to the character.
then you would probably want some control over how details were controlled - eyes blurring into nose/etc. if you want something that looks like it was really done by hand
it all gets more complicated then when information is required to be passed on throughout the film.
That's called Rotoscoping, and it's been around since before the original Lord of the Rings movie by Ralph Bakashi (1978).
That's not what the article was about, really, if you read it. Rotoscoping is modifying each frame individually, in a manner similar to how you do a cartoon.
If you RTFA (fat chance, I know), the article addresses this: "In addition, current techniques to turn videos into cartoons are very labor intensive; the artist has to render each frame by hand. And it still doesn't solve the 'jumping' problem.".