NijiGPen is a Blender add-on that brings new features to Grease Pencil for creating 2D graphic design and illustrations. It provides with the following functions: 2D algorithms for vector shapes and ...

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December 29, 1999: Apple starts shipping its unfathomably large 22-inch Cinema Display, the biggest LCD computer display available anywhere, Apple’s all-digital flat panel is a far cry from the bulky ...

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Abstract: Stroke-based Rendering (SBR) aims to decompose an input image into a sequence of parameterized strokes, which can be rendered into a painting that resembles the input image. Recently, Neural ...

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

In the late 1990s, some computer scientists realized that they were hurtling towards disaster. Makers of computer chips had been able to make computers more powerful on a reliable schedule by cramming ...

'Digital art' describes the use of technology in creative thinking and art making. Ranging across a wide variety of mediums, digital art spans from computer, generative, robotic, kinetic, and net art, ...

Good software is the basis of all PC use, but many professional programs are too expensive for private use. This is where the free software-based applications step in, which, including their source ...

Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical. Every few years, computers can suddenly do something they’ve never been able to do before. “Behold!” the AI true believers proclaim, “the age of artificial ...

Aiming at the poor robustness and adaptability of traditional control methods for different situations, the deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm is improved by designing a hybrid ...