Supervisor: Alan Sexton
Keywords: Final Year Undergraduate Students Only, Graphics, Image Analysis
Brief Description:
Drawing diagrams for inclusion in papers and reports can be very
tedious. Either you use a markup language for drawing figures which
gives a great deal of flexibility in defining your diagrams but needs
programming style skills to do so, or you use an interactive tool and,
typically, sacrifice some expressivity or quality of the final
diagram. Either way, it can take a long time and a great deal of
detailed work to get it right.
An alternative is to sketch the diagram on paper, scan it
in, analyse the results for lines, curves, rectangles,
circles, text etc. use some intelligence to clean it up,
e.g. by guessing that, a particular slightly wavy line was
intended to be straight, and generate the diagram in an
appropriate form for further editing in a diagram tool.
Special Equipment: No special equipment requirements
Special Software: No special software requirements
Maintained by A.P.Sexton@cs.bham.ac.uk
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