CYNTHIA LU: Tango is a very
intellectual kind of dancing.
It involves a lot of brain
power somehow.
I am Jingwan Lu.
I come from Beijing, China.
I am doing a Ph.D. at the
Computer Science Department in
Princeton University.
I'm in my first year in PhD.
I learned tango here.
Tango to me involves a lot of
intricate body movements that
in a way echo the kind of
intricate patterns I work with
in computer graphics.
I have always been interested
in art, including different
types of dancing, drawing,
and painting.
This is our research lab.
While doing computer science,
most of the time you sit there
and do your own stuff.
To go out dancing somewhere
will be enriching my life
because it gives me an
opportunity to actually
interact with real people.
The goal of this project is
trying to make use of existing
strokes that artists made on
canvas, trying to map them
directly into the digital
painting program.
First of all, the results are
more realistic and artists can
express their creativity by
making their own examples.
I started this project when I
was doing a summer internship
at Adobe Systems where we
did a project about line
stylization, which we presented
at SIGGRAPH
Conference last year.
And it's actually very exciting
that Adobe is really
interested in this research
and is considering
transferring it into their real
product, like an app on
tablet or cell phone.
This project also triggered
interest from Google, where
they funded me with this
two-year graduate student
fellowship in artistic media.
They have different types of
research areas related to
computer photography and maybe
in the future, artistic media.
By doing this kind of research,
I find that to be a
pretty good blend of my
interests in both computer
science and art.
It's just very exciting to see
people use my software that
comes out of my Ph.D. program.
It will be very fascinating to
see my research get used in 10
years or 20 years.
Tango is a very intellectual
kind of dancing.
It involves a lot of brain
power somehow.
I am Jingwan Lu.
I come from Beijing, China.
I am doing a Ph.D. at the
Computer Science Department in
Princeton University.
I'm in my first year in Ph.D.
I learned tango here.
Tango to me involves a lot of
intricate body movements that
in a way echo the kind of
intricate patterns I work with
in computer graphics.
I have always been interested
in art, including different
types of dancing, drawing,
and painting.
This is our research lab.
While doing computer science,
most of the time you sit there
and do your own stuff.
To go out dancing somewhere
will be enriching my life
because it gives me an
opportunity to actually
interact with real people.
The goal of this project is
trying to make use of existing
strokes that artists made on
canvas, trying to map them
directly into the digital
painting program.
First of all, the results are
more realistic and artists can
express their creativity by
making their examples.
I started this project when I
was doing summer internship at
Adobe Systems where we did a
project about line stylization
which we presented at SIGGRAPH
Conference last year.
And it's actually very exciting
that Adobe is really
interested in this research
and is considering
transferring it into their real
product, like an app on
tablet or cell phone.
This project also triggered
interest from Google, where
they funded me with this
two-year graduate student
fellowship in artistic media.
They have different types of
research areas related to
computer photography,
and maybe in the
future, artistic media.
By doing this kind of research,
I find that to be a
pretty good blend of my
interests in both computer
science and art.
It's just very exciting to see
people use my software that
comes out of my Ph.D. program.
It will be very fascinating to
see my research get used in 10
years or 20 years.