Optimal boundaries for Poisson mesh merging

Existing Poisson mesh editing techniques mainly focus on designing schemes to propagate deformation from a given boundary condition to a region of interest. Although solving the Poisson system in the least-squares sense distributes the distortion errors over the entire region of interest, large deformation in the boundary condition might still lead to severely distorted results. We propose to optimize the boundary condition (the merging boundary) for Poisson mesh merging. The user needs only to casually mark a source region and a target region. Our algorithm automatically searches for an optimal boundary condition within the marked regions such that the change of the found boundary during merging is minimal in terms of similarity transformation. Experimental results demonstrate that our merging tool is easy to use and produces visually better merging results than unoptimized techniques

Example-Based Automatic Font Generation

Abstract. It is difficult and time-consuming to create and maintain a consistent style in all characters in manual font design process. Thus, we present a method for automatically generating a new font from a userdefined example. From each character outline, a skeleton is derived to be used as a topological structure. The system can then represent an arbitrary font using a weighted blend of outlines and skeletons from template fonts. The system takes the outline of a single character drawn by the user and computes blending weights from a database to reproduce the given outline. The weights are then applied to all characters to synthesize the new font. In this paper, the algorithm is described in detail and its quality evaluated with some examples.