Cubic Stylization

TL;DR

This paper introduces a 3D stylization algorithm that transforms shapes into cubic styles by optimizing a specific energy function, enabling artistic control while preserving details.

Contribution

The novel cubic stylization method uses an as-rigid-as-possible energy with l1-regularization, allowing efficient, detail-preserving shape transformation without mesh surgery.

Findings

Produces cubic stylized geometries effectively.

Maintains original shape details during stylization.

Operates efficiently without complex mesh modifications.

Abstract

We present a 3D stylization algorithm that can turn an input shape into the style of a cube while maintaining the content of the original shape. The key insight is that cubic style sculptures can be captured by the as-rigid-as-possible energy with an l1-regularization on rotated surface normals. Minimizing this energy naturally leads to a detail-preserving, cubic geometry. Our optimization can be solved efficiently without any mesh surgery. Our method serves as a non-realistic modeling tool where one can incorporate many artistic controls to create stylized geometries.