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Legible Compact Calligrams

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Changqing Zou *
曹俊杰 (Junjie Cao) *
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Ibraheem Alhashim
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Ping Tan
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Alla Sheffer
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Hao Zhang
DOI:10.1145/2897824.2925887delete
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Abstract

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A calligram is an arrangement of words or letters that creates a visual image, and a compact calligram fits one word into a 2D shape. We introduce a fully automatic method for the generation of legible compact calligrams which provides a balance between conveying the input shape, legibility, and aesthetics. Our method has three key elements: a path generation step which computes a global layout path suitable for embedding the input word; an alignment step to place the letters so as to achieve feature alignment between letter and shape protrusions while maintaining word legibility; and a final deformation step which deforms the letters to fit the shape while balancing fit against letter legibility. As letter legibility is critical to the quality of compact calligrams, we conduct a large-scale crowd-sourced study on the impact of different letter deformations on legibility and use the results to train a letter legibility measure which guides the letter deformation. We show automatically generated calligrams on an extensive set of word-image combinations. The legibility and overall quality of the calligrams are evaluated and compared, via user studies, to those produced by human creators, including a professional artist, and existing works.
Keywords:
calligram
legibility
shape deformation
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ACM Transactions on Graphics cover
ACM Transactions on Graphics
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Simon Fraser University
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