L.ink: Illustrating Controllable Surprise with L-System Based Strokes
Abstrak
Traditional usability guidelines recommend that interactive systems minimize user surprise, yet surprise plays a key role in artists’ creative experience. Digital art tools thus face the challenge of balancing control and surprise. We present L.ink, a digital illustration tool that empowers expert and novice artists to draw with controllable yet unpredictable procedural growth styles powered by L-systems. Unpredictability is achieved with a real-time interactive ink growth effect, while user control is provided by a rule editor with live visual preview. L.ink’s design builds on a model of drawing as a continuous feedback loop between the artist and their medium. Through a formative study with an early prototype version of the system, we identify three types of surprise and adapt our design with a strategy for mitigating unwanted surprise. This work has the potential to influence future efforts towards empowering artists working with unpredictable mediums.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (4)
Eric Chen
Tongyu Zhou
Joshua Kong Yang
Jeffson Huang
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 1×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1145/3706599.3720069
- Akses
- Open Access ✓