Paper Info
Title
PATEX: exploring pattern variations
Abstract
Patterns play a central role in 2D graphic design. A critical step in the design of patterns is evaluating multiple design alternatives. Exploring these alternatives with existing tools is challenging because most tools force users to work with a single fixed representation of the pattern that encodes a specific set of geometric relationships between pattern elements. However, for most patterns, there are many different interpretations of its regularity that correspond to different design variations. The exponential nature of this variation space makes the problem of finding all variations intractable. We present a method called PATEX to characterize and efficiently identify distinct and valid pattern variations, allowing users to directly navigate the variation space. Technically, we propose a novel linear approximation to handle the complexity of the problem and efficiently enumerate suitable pattern variations under proposed element movements. We also present two pattern editing interfaces that expose the detected pattern variations as suggested edits to the user. We show a diverse collection of pattern edits and variations created with PATEX. The results from our user study indicate that our suggested variations can be useful and inspirational for typical pattern editing tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2897824.2925950
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2016
Keywords
Field
DocType
patterns,arrangements,design tools,vector graphics,design space exploration,variations
Linear approximation,State pattern,Computer vision,Vector graphics,Computer science,Structural pattern,Software design pattern,Algorithm,Theoretical computer science,Graphic design,Artificial intelligence,Design space exploration
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Guerrero19910.97
Gilbert Louis Bernstein2764.34
Wilmot Li394142.97
Niloy J. Mitra43813176.15