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Turn Real Life Into A Cartoon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the video-toasting dept.

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."

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  1. sounds cool, but... by blisspix · · Score: 5, Informative
    I'd prefer to attempt rotoscope. The results are amazing. Best example is probably Waking Life

    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.

  2. Oh.. by FractalPenguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    this? http://students.washington.edu/juew/

  3. Re:Similar to Waking Life... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Informative

    And he's currently doing P.K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly the same way.

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  4. Cohen, remember the guy? by hsa · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  5. Re:Freudian Slip by martinX · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  6. Re:Freudian Slip by wviperw · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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