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Comic Chat
| Venue: | Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ’96 |
| Citations: | 105 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kurlander_comicchat,
author = {David Kurlander and Tim Skelly and David Salesin},
title = {Comic Chat},
booktitle = {Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ’96},
year = {},
pages = {4--9}
}
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Abstract
Comics have a rich visual vocabulary, and people find them appealing. They are also an effective form of communication. We have built a system, called Comic Chat, that represents on-line communications in the form of comics. Comic Chat automates numerous aspects of comics generation, including balloon construction and layout, the placement and orientation of comic characters, the default selection of character gestures and expressions, the incorporation of semantic panel elements, and the choice of zoom factor for the virtual camera. This paper describes the mechanisms that Comic Chat uses to perform this automation, as well as novel aspects of the program’s user interface. Comic Chat is a working program, allowing groups of people to communicate over the Internet. It has several advantages over other graphical chat programs, including the availability of a graphical history, and a dynamic graphical presentation.
Keyphrases
comic chat virtual camera balloon construction dynamic graphical presentation numerous aspect comic character effective form working program graphical history comic generation default selection user interface on-line communication semantic panel element graphical chat program novel aspect rich visual vocabulary zoom factor several advantage character gesture
