Pattern Synthesis for Low-Resolution Displays

Limbic Media创建交互式艺术装置，其中灯光阵列对环境中的声音做出反应，改变其颜色和亮度作为回应。目前，照明设计师以相当大的努力和费用手动构建图案。这个项目将研究自动图案合成的算法，自动生成有趣的视觉结构；这些算法可以直接用于装置，也可以作为设计师的灵感。*光阵列的分辨率中等低，涉及数百到数万个光；与普通摄影和合成图像形成对比，后者通常使用数百万像素。低分辨率图案合成很少被研究，尽管尝试点画、像素艺术和低分辨率着色提供了一些先例。因此，我们面临着寻找在低分辨率环境中创建和表示图案的算法和数据结构的研究挑战。*我们的第一步将是在灯光的排列上施加一些结构。每一盏灯都将与它的一小部分邻居联系在一起。使用这些链接，我们可以对局部结构进行推理，并构建模式。我们将研究抽象模式、动态模式，甚至潜在的具象模式，它们传达了一种可识别的场景的感觉，尽管可用的灯光数量很少。然后，我们的工业合作伙伴将使用这些图案来创建令人惊叹的互动灯光秀和艺术。

Limbic Media creates interactive art installations in which arrays of lights react to sound in the environment, changing their color and brightness in response. At present, a lighting designer constructs patterns manually at considerable effort and expense. This project will investigate algorithms for automated pattern synthesis, making interesting visual structures automatically; these can either be used directly in an installation or serve as inspiration for the designer.****The light array has moderately low resolution, involving hundreds to tens of thousands of lights; contrast this with general photographic and synthetic imagery, where it is common to use millions of pixels. Low-resolution pattern synthesis has been little studied, although ventures into stippling, pixel art, and low-resolution colorings provide some precedent. Thus we have the research challenge of finding algorithms and data structures for creating and representing patterns in the low-resolution context.****Our first step will be to impose some structure on the arrangement of lights. Each light will be linked with a small number of its neighbours. Using these links, we can reason about the local structure and construct patterns. We will investigate abstract patterns, dynamic patterns, and even potentially representational patterns, that convey the sense of a recognizable scene despite the small number of lights available. These patterns will then be used by our industrial partner in creating breathtaking interactive lightshows and art.******