SBIR Phase I: Computer-Aided Mosaic Design and Construction

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在开发一个全面的软件工具包，用于创建数字马赛克艺术品。马赛克已被证明是一个伟大的视觉辉煌的来源数千年。尽管马赛克在艺术和建筑中很突出，但手工设计和组装仍然很困难。这个第一阶段项目的目标是建立和测试软件工具，以自动化生产的数字马赛克艺术品。在第二阶段与机器人装配集成后，拟议的自动化将大大降低设计和制造马赛克艺术品的时间和成本。 在第一阶段，Artaic提出将联合收割机两种领先的数字瓷砖布局方法-程序和基于优化的算法-紧密模仿马赛克艺术家的工作流程。艺术家将绘制曲线，以表示感知上重要的边缘沿着瓷砖应该定向，而算法将确定瓷砖放置响应用户定义的参数，渲染风格和组成规则如果成功，这项工作将在艺术，设计和建筑方面具有广泛的商业潜力。软件和机器人自动化将降低马赛克的成本，并增加其装饰公共，商业和住宅空间的传统社会影响。这也将产生溢出效应，包括在广告，娱乐和视觉效果中越来越多地使用这种艺术形式。 Artaic的最终目标是利用该软件与自定义机器人技术来创建物理马赛克。这将使Artaic能够扩展到一个数十亿美元的市场，并增加国内劳动力。事实上，除了大规模物理输出的成熟商业市场之外，这项工作还有一个软件出口，这增加了拟议研究的进步。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to develop a comprehensive software toolkit for creating digital mosaic artwork. Mosaics have proven to be a great source of visual splendor for thousands of years. Despite their prominence in art and architecture, mosaics are arduous to design and assemble by hand. The goal of this Phase I project is to build and test software tools to automate production of digital mosaic artwork. After integration with robotic assembly in Phase II, the proposed automation will significantly lower the time and cost for designing and manufacturing mosaic artwork. In Phase I, Artaic proposes to combine two leading methodologies for digital tile layout - procedural and optimization-based algorithms - to closely mimic the workflow of mosaic artists. Artists will sketch curves to denote perceptually important edges along which the tiles should be oriented, while algorithms will determine tile placement in response to user-defined parameters, rendering styles, and composition rulesIf successful, this work will have broad commercial potential in art, design, and architecture. Software and robotic automation will lower the cost of mosaics and increase its traditional societal impact of adorning public, commercial, and residential spaces. This will also have spillover benefits, including growing use of this artform in advertising, entertainment, and visual effects. The ultimate goal of Artaic is to leverage this software with custom robotics to create physical mosaics. This will enable Artaic to expand into a multi-billion dollar market and grow a domestic workforce. The fact that there is a software outlet for this work in addition to a proven commercial market for large-scale physical output adds to the case for the advancement of the proposed research.