Stretching a font generally doesn't look very good. Instead, we can find the most stretchable areas automatically and preserve the details in the rest!

Slices of a font stretch proportional to how well the tangents at that slice align with the stretch direction. This technique works for standard outline fonts, so you can try it on just about any font!

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A novel computer vision algorithm for stitching photos together with as much weird shit as possible.

The panorama feature on early smartphones produced frequent delightful visual glitches. Modern panorama apps are better at accurately reproducing their subjects, and subsequently forget their true goal: surprising the user with the unexpected and uncanny. We propose a novel camera system that maximizes occurrences of weird visuals rather than trying to sweep them under the rug.

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I worked out some math to be able to apply arbitrary warps to 3D meshes in a shader and still get correct lighting and reflections.

Domain warping is a technique commonly used in creative coding to distort graphics and add visual interest to a work. The approach has the potential to be used in 3D art as mesh vertices can be efficiently warped using a vertex shader in a WebGL pipeline. However, 3D models packaged for the web typically come with baked-in normal vectors, and these need to be updated when vertex positions change for lighting calculations to work. This is typically done via finite differences, which requires parameter tuning to achieve optimal visual fidelity. We present a method for 3D domain warping that works with automatic differentiation, allowing exact normals to be used without any tuning while still benefiting from hardware acceleration.

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