In vertebrates, skin colour patterns emerge from nonlinear dynamical microscopic systems of
cell interactions. Here we show that in ocellated lizards a quasi-hexagonal lattice of skin …

In this article we survey techniques for the digital simulation of hand-made stippling—one of
the core techniques developed within non-photorealistic/expressive rendering. Over the …

Patterns, which are collections of elements arranged in regular or near-regular
arrangements, are an important graphic art form and widely used due to their elegant …

In this paper, we survey recent approaches to blue-noise sampling and discuss their
beneficial applications. We discuss the sampling algorithms that use points as sampling …

In this article we revisit the problem of blue noise sampling with a strong focus on the
spectral properties of the sampling patterns. Starting from the observation that oscillations in …

We present a novel technique that produces two-dimensional low-discrepancy (LD) blue
noise point sets for sampling. Using one-dimensional binary van der Corput sequences, we …

The convergence speed of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) can be improved by actively
selecting mini-batches. We explore sampling schemes where similar data points are less …

We propose a new spectral analysis of the variance in Monte Carlo integration, expressed in
terms of the power spectra of the sampling pattern and the integrand involved. We build our …

Among the various approaches for producing point distributions with blue noise spectrum,
we argue for an optimization framework using Gaussian kernels. We show that with a wise …

We introduce a novel semi‐procedural approach that avoids drawbacks of procedural
textures and leverages advantages of data‐driven texture synthesis. We split synthesis in …