Shaping with Patterns

People like magic. It is fun to imagine a cloud is shaped like a Mickey mouse, or the pattern of leaves and flowers are associated with human face. Sometimes in fiction movie or cartoon production, we like to see similar visual effects. In this paper, we define the problem as following: Given two images, one for pattern and one for shape. We output another image, which draws the shape provided in the shape image, but using the patterns defined in the pattern image. This is a typical texture synthesize problem with user interaction. In a typical texture synthesize problem, a source pattern is used to produce another texture, which visually resembles the pattern. Some algorithms have also been invented to guide the texture synthesize process by providing another user defined image as a hint to grow the texture. Based on these algorithms, we successfully solved the problem stated above.