Interactive Depixelization of Pixel Art through Spring Simulation

We introduce an approach for converting pixel art into high-quality vector images. While much progress has been made on automatic conversion, there is an inherent ambiguity in pixel art, which can lead to a mismatch with the artist's original intent. Further, there is room for incorporating aesthetic preferences during the conversion. In...

A New Baseline for Feature Description on Multimodal Scans of Paintings

Multimodal imaging is used by conservators and scientists to study the composition of paintings. To aid the combined analysis of these scans, such images must first be aligned. Rather than proposing a new domain-specific descriptor, we explore and evaluate how existing feature descriptors from related fields can improve the performance of...

Semi-Automatic Perspective Lines from Paintings

Perspective cues play an important role in painting analysis as it may unveil important characteristics about the painter's techniques and creation process. Nevertheless, extracting perspective lines and their corresponding vanishing points is usually a laborious manual task. Moreover, small variations in the lines may lead to large variations...

Hembrug, Transforming Campus North

This graduation project is about transforming Campus North on the Hembrug terrain in Zaandam as part of the studio Heritage and Architecture. Hembrug is a former military production terrain and was the logistic heart of the “Stelling of Amsterdam”. This area was left vacant since 2003, but in recent years new occupants inhabit Hembrug. The...

Investigation of the Effect of the Green Glaze Layer in the Background of Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer: An Approach using Optical Properties of Paints and Rendering Technique

A novel combination of analytical techniques for measuring optical properties of glaze and paint as input for computer modelling is used to investigate the influence of the green glaze layer present on top of the black underpainting in the background of Girl with a Pearl Earring. The absorption spectra of paint layers from paint reconstructions...

Culture change through fine arts: Implementing art venues in gentrified cities

This project is motivated by voice of the citizens of Amsterdam who fight the destructive monster called gentrification. The research prior to the design deals with complexity on different urban and architectural scale levels. The design proposes contra reaction against the culturally negative side effects of gentrification of the city centre of...

Development of a high resolution topography and color scanner to capture crack patterns of paintings

The aging of paintings is inevitable and over the years degradation occurs due to exposure to a variety of environmental influences. One of these degradations is craquelure, fracture patterns in the paint. 3D imaging techniques offer opportunities to capture the surface of a painting and these patterns at high resolution. In this paper we...

Integrating gloss scan to the 3D fine art scanner

The gloss-capturing prototype was a first step towards the reproduction of the gloss levels in different parts of the painting and the basic principles were verified with this system. However, it was not yet an integrated system with the 3D fine art scanner. For this thesis the different components of the gloss scanner have been analyzed and...

Smartframe: Design of an exposition setup for 3d-printed fine-art replicas

Fine art has been with us for centuries. The first known paintings have been made about 40,000 years ago on cave walls. Paintings represent a very fundamental human need to creatively express ourselves. Fine arts still plays a pivotal role in cultural and creative expression. The interest in the paintings of old, as well as the paintings of...