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This site contains data related to the Princeton Graphics Group's study of human artists' drawings of 3D shapes.

In late 2007 several members of the graphics group, with help from local art instructors, conducted a study designed to investigate how artists' drawings of 3D shapes correlated with the mathematical properties of the shapes and known computer graphics line drawing techniques. The results of this study will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2008, and are available in full from this site.

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Drawing Viewer

Javascript Drawing Viewer

The registered drawings we collected can be viewed, along with several common CG line definitions, in a javascript application. Currently it is known to work on Firefox 2.0+ and Safari 3+, and to fail on Internet Explorer. Other browsers may work too.

Paper

"Where Do People Draw Lines?," Forrester Cole, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Alex Limpaecher, Heather Stoddart Barros, Adam Finkelstein, Thomas Funkhouser, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2008)

Dataset

The full dataset, containing initial and registered drawings, prompt and drawing pages, instruction page, models, camera views, and lighting environments is available here:

Version 1.0 (May 6, 2008):

line_study.zip (241MB)