Publication date:
2016/08/24
At the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, a new tool for automated 3D image stylization, StyLit, has been developed by doc. Daniel Sýkora´s team. It can faithfully reproduce artist´s style, creating a realistic synthetic painting. The unique software is more sophisticated than any currently available commercial tool.
The StyLit application can create rather complex 3D entities based on hand-drawn example of a simple scene by the user. The advantage of the new method lays in analysys of light propagation in a scene that allows stylization of specific lighting effects, such as glossy reflections, shadows and indirect lighting. These effects give realistic look to the resulting paintings.
In addition to scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, six professional artists have also contributed together with representatives from Adobe company. This method facilitates artists’ work and opens the possibility of automated creation of graphical content whith visual appearance that is almost indistinguishable from the time-consuming manual work.