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The Nonphotorealistic Camera

Posted by timothy on from the cleverness-applied dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article on Photo.Net describes a new type of imaging technique that finds depth discontinuities in real-world scenes with multiple flashes added to ordinary digital cameras. As depth discontinuities correspond to real 3D object boundaries, the resulting images look like line drawings. The same technique was used at this year's SIGGRAPH to create a live A-ha 'Take On Me' demo."

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  1. Demo Video by HogynCymraeg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is here

  2. Re:Very interesting, but stupid by thesp · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are mistaken. The final image is the 'equivalent' photoshop filter, and it's showing what a poor job it does in contrast to the third image, a good image, from the multiflash.

  3. Phase congruency by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Informative

    The depth edge maps bear a superficial resemblance to phase congruency maps. It's the best edge detection method I've come across, and works on ordinary 2D images. Check out some examples on Peter Kovesi's pages, there's also some code for download.

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