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From: diomidis@ecrcvax.UUCP (Diomidis Spinellis)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Cleaning up freehand drawings
Summary: A paper in SIGGRAPH July 85 describes a technique
Keywords: beautify freehand drawing
Message-ID: <778@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 17:26:14 GMT
References: <1580002@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Reply-To: diomidis@ecrcvax.UUCP (Diomidis Spinellis)
Organization: ECRC, Munich 81, West Germany
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In article <1580002@hp-ptp.HP.COM> garye@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Gary_Ericson) writes:
>I was talking with someone once about a computer-based drawing system that 
>would help the user draw by 'cleaning up' the things he/she draws.
...
[Describes the problem of freehand drawing beautification]
...
>The question is: Has anyone developed algorithms (or, better yet, software) for
>this kind of thing?  Is this possible or ridiculously difficult?

A paper in SIGGRAPH describes some techniques and software developed based 
on them:

@InProceedings  {Pavlidis:85,
        Author="Theo Pavlidis and Christopher J. Van Wyk",
        Title="An Automatic Beautifier for Drawings and Illustrations",
        Booktitle="Computer Graphics",
        Editor="Brian A. Barsky",
        Month="July",
        Organization="ACM SIGGRAPH",
        Pages="225-243",
        Publisher="ACM",
        Year="1985"
}

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