Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!maytag!water!wlrush From: wlrush@water.waterloo.edu (Wenchantress Wench Wendall) Newsgroups: ont.events,uw.talks Subject: MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION Keywords: Mr. Guno Sutiono, graduate student, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, will speak on "A Region-Based Approach for Digital Cell Painting." Message-ID: <2283@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 28 Apr 89 13:26:17 GMT Distribution: ont Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 40 DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SEMINAR ACTIVITIES MASTER'S ESSAY PRESENTATION -Tuesday, May 2, 1989 Mr. Guno Sutiono, graduate student, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, will speak on "A Region-Based Approach for Digital Cel Painting." TIME: 3:30 PM ROOM: DC 1304 ABSTRACT Recently, a number of computer- aided paint systems have been developed to improve the colour painting process, traditionally one of the most time-consuming steps in 2-D cel animation production. However, much improvement remains to be made in the design of these new systems. In this talk, we describe a region-based cel painting design which uses the "paint-by-number" method and is based on a virtual frame buffer model. In this region-based design, the regions are recognizable, defined entities. This allows us to define functions for conceptually-based, interactive painting techniques, which can be easily implemented. Furthermore, the availability of this additional region information introduces the possibility of automatic multi-frame colour tracking, which can be implemented by transforming this problem into a well-known maximum matching problem in graph theory. Thus, this new region-based design builds upon techniques used in earlier systems and paves the way for future improvements.