“An improved representation for stroke-based fonts” by Jakubiak, Perry and Frisken
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- An improved representation for stroke-based fonts
Session/Category Title: New Tricks for Old Dogs
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Abstract:
For a typical Asian typeface, traditional outline-based fonts require -5-10 MBs. Existing stroke-based fonts lack expressiveness. Rich Stroke Fonts provide detailed and expressive fonts with a small memory footprint.
References:
1. Frisken, S., Perry, R., Rockwood, A., and Jones, T., 2000. Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields: A General Representation of Shape for Computer Graphics. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, pp. 249–254.
2. Frisken, S. and Perry, R., 2006. U.S. Patent 7,002,598 “Generating a Composite Glyph and Rendering a Region of the Composite Glyph in Object-Order”.
3. Knuth, D., 1986. The METAFONTbook. Addison-Wesley, USA.
4. Perry, R. and Frisken, S., 2005. U.S. Patent 6,917,369 “Rendering Cell-based Distance Fields Using Texture Mapping”.
