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Applications

  • Image/texture synthesis for webdesign
  • Making unique 2/3d-models for digital fabrication
  • Image filtering

Ideas

Obeying mechanical constraints

In order to move away from just "texturing" but creating significant changes, that may also have functional/structural impact, and ensuring these preserve usefulness of object. Minimum height/width, material thickness or strength.

Simulated life

Simulate a dynamic system defined by 2/3d-topology, where simulated life influence the topology based on simple rules. Kind of a Game-of-Life.

'Series' of objects can be done using the same system, where each object instance is a diffent generation of the system.

References

Techniques

  • Lindenmayer systems. "L-systems"

Other

Softwares

  • TopMod3d. Paper GPL-licensed software for creating generative topological 3d-meshes.

Information layout

Ex on website.

Greedy algorithm. Does optimal local choice Operates section by section Content-first layout. Consecutive sections consider the top N items, ask sections to lay them out. O( (items/N) * templates )

A section template

  • Declares number of items supported
  • Must support any item type(s) for these N items
  • Given N items, scores the content-fit
  • Standardized interface, pluggable
  • Website config: template set

Template ex

  • 1 full-spread.
  • 2: Primary above, secondary below. And v.v.
  • 2: Primary right, secondary left. And v.v.
  • 3: Primary mid, secondary left+right. Flip r/l. Flip top/bottom
  • 4: Pri/sec 1, pri/sec 2.
  • 4: 4 equals
  • 10: Gallery

Layout fitness

  • Normal range: 0.0-1.0. Maybe allow impossible: infinity.
  • Spaciness: Right amount of whitespace between items
  • Crampedness: Item should have enough space. Text legibility, image features
  • Balance: Item should fill their space to same proportion
  • Importance: Items are given space according to their relative importance
  • Should these also be reported as 'features'?
  • Might want/need to normalize scores based on the templates optimism to get fairness. Calculate across (sample of) all possibilities contents. For one template, can show content according to preference order. For a piece of content, can show top-3 templates.

Section preference

  • A way for user to directly influence choice

Layout diversity

  • Pri: Avoiding repeated layouts
  • Good: Having some structure
  • maybe-nice-to-have: Rhythms of repeating elements

Content importance/emphasis

  • Headlines+
  • Images++

Content ordering

  • Narrative
  • Posted date
  • Importance