aka Generating & Manipulating Painterly Renderings of Images
As part of my Honors Bachelor’s degree, I completed an undergraduate thesis in which I developed a program that takes in any image and allows the user to apply different painterly styles.
| To achieve these effects, I worked with OpenGL in C++ and used GLUI to achieve the user interface. While the UI is fairly straightforward and not very aesthetically pleasing, it allowed me to demonstrate the complete spectrum of the project's capabilities. |
The brush strokes, whose length and brush radius are decided by the user, are derived from vector fields that are created from the contours of the input image.
I worked on this project over the span of four years, throughout my entire undergraduate career. I learned so much from completing and defending this thesis, from the inner workings of OpenGL and the computer graphics pipeline to long-term project management, all of which I am using to develop my Master’s thesis.
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In addition to the software, I also wrote and defended a thesis, which was published by the Honors College at Oregon State. You can view my thesis here, or you can view my defense presentation here: