Battle lines are drawn

Mimicking Hand-Drawn Pencil Lines

We provide a system that will serve as a high quality pencil media line reproduction agent for creating aesthetically pleasing lines that mimic human-drawn lines. The method avoids computationally expensive techniques and large storage space. The system is not intended to replace artists or illustration, but to provide a tool for users with no training to produce traditional images using a penc...

Drawing new GM battle lines

The legal battles over GM crop trials in Europe are hotting up, reports Nigel Williams.

Automatically Mimicking Unique Hand-Drawn Pencil Lines

In applications such as architecture, early design sketches containing accurate line drawings often mislead the target audience [Schumann et al., 1996]. Approximate human-drawn sketches are typically accepted as a better way of demonstrating fundamental design concepts. To this end we have designed an algorithm that creates lines that perceptually resemble human-drawn lines. Our algorithm works...

Battle lines deepen to save bluefin tuna

Germany has joined Britain, France and the Netherlands in backing Monaco’s proposal to seek a listing for bluefi n tuna by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which would ban all trade in the fi sh. The measure is seen by Monaco as the only option now open to preserve the species many biologists believe could be wiped out from the Mediterranean by 2012 at cu...

Are we losing the TB battle?