“An improved representation for stroke-based fonts” by Jakubiak, Perry and Frisken

  • ©Elena J. Jakubiak, Ronald N. Perry, and Sarah F. Frisken

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    An improved representation for stroke-based fonts

Session/Category Title:   New Tricks for Old Dogs


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    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.

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    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”.


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