A Natural Image Pointillism with Controlled Ellipse Dots

Table 1

Pointillism settings.

Parameters	Settings
Total dot number	/20, constrained from 10000 to 40000
Minimal dot size (pixels)	= /10, minimal to 3
Maximal dot size (pixels)	, maximal to 99
	0.05~0.1, controls the maximal dot size according to the source image size
Block radius (pixels) for direction map	= 4
Block size (pixels) when deciding dot size with saliency values	+ 1, constrained from 9 to 21