ChromoUpdate is a texture transfer system for fast design iteration. For the early stages of design, ChromoUpdate provides a fast grayscale preview that enables a texture to be transferred in under one minute. Once designers are satisfied with the grayscale texture, ChromoUpdate supports designers in coloring the texture by transitioning individual pixels directly to a desired target color. Finally, if designers need to make a change to the color texture already transferred, ChromoUpdate can quickly transition individual pixels from one color to a new target color. ChromoUpdate accomplishes this by (1)~using a UV projector rather than a UV LED, which enables pixels to be saturated individually rather than resetting the entire texture to black, and (2)~providing two new texture transfer algorithms that allows for fast monochromatic previews and color-to-color transitions. Our evaluation shows a significant increase in texture transfer speed for both the monochromatic preview(831%) and color-to-color updates(29%).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445391
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