Michael A. Kowalski Lee Markosian J. D. Northrup Lubomir Bourdev Ronen Barzel Loring S. Holden John F. Hughes Paper (PDF) Abstract Bibtex

We present a new particle-based surface representation with which a user can interactively sculpt free-form surfaces. The particles maintain mesh connectivity and operate under rules that lead them to form triangulations with properties that make them suitable for use in subdivision. A user interactively guides the particles, which we call skin, to grow over a given collection of polyhedral elements (or skeletons), yielding a smooth surface (through subdivision) that approximates the underlying skeletal shapes. Skin resembles blobby modeling in the constructive approach to modeling it supports, but allows a richer vocabulary of skeleton shapes, supports sharp creaseswhere desired, and provides a convenientmechanism for adding multiresolution surface detail.

@inproceedings{Kowalski:1999:ARO,

  author = "Michael A. Kowalski and Lee Markosian and J. D.    Northrup and Lubomir Bourdev and Ronen Barzel and    Loring S. Holden and John F. Hughes",

  title = "Art-Based Rendering of Fur, Grass, and Trees",

  year = "1999",

  month = aug,

  booktitle = "Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99",

  series = "Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series",

  pages = "433--438",

}