Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Information Systems Research Australia Pty. Ltd.

Lincoln David Stone

Timothy Merrick Long

George Politis

Marija Herceg

Oliver Bock

The artwork is defined by a tree structure having leaf nodes comprising objects and parent nodes comprising graphical operators. Each node has fields storing values indicative of horizontal and vertical alteration rules applicable to that node or its sub-tree. The method comprises a selection step, a traversal step and two application steps. In the selection step ( ) a target area is selected for fitting the artwork. In the traversal step, the method traverses the nodes of the tree structure ( ) traversing one or more of the said nodes. In the first application step, the method applies, for each one of the traversed nodes that is a leaf node, a horizontal alteration rule ( ). The horizontal rule re-positions each point within the object comprising the leaf node to another point within a target area, whereby altering the shape of the artwork in a horizontal direction. In the second application step, the method applies a vertical alteration rule ( ) in a similar manner as the first application step, whereby altering the shape of the artwork in a vertical direction.

Altering the shape of an artwork

A method of automatically positioning one or more images within a region. The method comprises of computing ( ) a field at each image due to every other image, wherein the field at any image due to any other image is a function of the distance between any image and any other image and the surface area of that any other image. The method then computates ( ) a net force exerted on each image by every other image, wherein the net force acting on any one image is a function of the field acting on the said any one image and a characteristic of the said any one image. The method then moves ( ) each image a distance, which is a function of the net force acting on the image, in the direction of the net force.

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Lincoln David Stone