I discovered the Internet Archive Scholar database on here the other day and this paper blew my mind:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090116004341/http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/Paper_Video/TVCG/NPR_2007/TVCG_NPR_2007.pdf

This technique creates a "painterly art map" (PAM) of brushstrokes from a painting, and uses this map to render 3D scenes in a painterly style. This technique predates the first neural style transfer (NST) paper by ~6 years, predates StyleGAN by ~10 years, and runs in real time.

#computergraphics #stylized3d #stylizedrendering #npr3d

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