Random marks on paper: Non-photorealistic rendering with small primitives

Adrian Secord
Master's thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, UBC, Oct. 2002. PDF, BibTeX

This contains the material from the "Fast primitive" paper and the stippling paper, plus some extra ideas and unexplored research directions. The writing is much clearer and more explanatory than what was possible in the papers.

Fast primitive distribution for illustration

Adrian Secord, Wolfgang Heidrich and Lisa Streit
13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 2002 (EGRW 2002) PDF, PS.gz, BibTeX

This image made the cover of the proceedings!

Please note that the images in these paper are high-resolution black-and-white bitmaps. Some viewers might display them rather poorly, especially if they don't use a high-quality resampling algorithm. If this is the case, please either print the paper or refer to the nicely-resampled images on the project page.

More details and pictures at the project page.

Weighted Voronoi stippling

Adrian Secord
2nd International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR 2002) HTML, PDF, PS.gz, BibTeX

This image made the cover of the proceedings!

Please note that some PDF viewers don't antialias vector drawings, which can make the illustrations in the stippling paper look black and blocky. You might need to select Smooth line art in the preferences, or upgrade your viewer. In any case, printing the paper will give excellent results.

More details and pictures at the project page.

InVest: Interactive and Visual Edge Selection Tool for constructing evolutionary trees

Paul Kearney, Adrian Secord and Haoyang Zhang
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2000) PS.gz, BibTeX, PubMed

Discrete Models for Fracture and Plasticity

Yotam Gingold, Adrian Secord, Jefferson Y. Han, Eitan Grinspun and Denis Zorin
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004.

A poster, technical report, and movies describing our work on discrete models applied to problems in fracture and plastic effects in thin shells. See the the project page for more information.

Introduction to discrete differential geometry: The geometry of plane curves

Eitan Grinspun and Adrian Secord
In the SIGGRAPH 2006 Course Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction.

A PDF version is available from Prof. Grinspun's web pages on discrete differential geometry.

Thin Shells for Computer Graphics

Adrian Secord
2005

A short write-up about thin shells in computer graphics, generated while studying for my depth exam in the same topic. It covers introductory differential geometry and physical surface models. See the project page for more information.