Tiago Martins
Tiago Martins is a cross-media designer who works at the convergence of design, art and computer science. The focus of his work lies in the development of custom tools to computationally evolve novel designs.
After completing his Master in Design and Multimedia in the University of Coimbra, he enrolled in a PhD in Information Science and Technology at the same institution. He is researching and working on his thesis project Design through Automatic Evolution in the Computational Design and Visualization Lab. (CMS/CISUC). Recently, he started to work as invited assistant lecturer at the University of Coimbra, teaching in the field of computational graphic design in the Master of Design and Multimedia.
Email: tiagofm(at)dei.uc.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-2638-237X
Google Scholar: link
Instagram: @tiagomartins
After completing his Master in Design and Multimedia in the University of Coimbra, he enrolled in a PhD in Information Science and Technology at the same institution. He is researching and working on his thesis project Design through Automatic Evolution in the Computational Design and Visualization Lab. (CMS/CISUC). Recently, he started to work as invited assistant lecturer at the University of Coimbra, teaching in the field of computational graphic design in the Master of Design and Multimedia.
Email: tiagofm(at)dei.uc.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-2638-237X
Google Scholar: link
Instagram: @tiagomartins

Related projects
Articles
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T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evolving Stencils for Typefaces: Combining Machine Learning, User’s Preferences and Novelty,” Complexity, vol. 2019, 2019.
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@article{martins2019b,
Author = {Tiago Martins and Jo{\~{a}}o Correia and Ernesto Costa and Penousal Machado},
Doi = {10.1155/2019/3509263},
Journal = {Complexity},
Title = {Evolving Stencils for Typefaces: Combining Machine Learning, User’s Preferences and Novelty},
Volume = {2019},
Year = {2019},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3509263}} -
J. Parente, T. Martins, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Designing Dynamic Logotypes to Represent Data,” International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT), vol. 8, iss. 1, 2019.
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@article{parente2019,
author = {Parente, J{\'{e}}ssica and Martins, Tiago and Bicker, Jo{\~{a}}o and Machado, Penousal},
journal = {International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT)},
number = {1},
title = {{Designing Dynamic Logotypes to Represent Data}},
volume = {8},
year = {2019}
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T. Martins, J. M. Cunha, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Dynamic Visual Identities: from a survey of the state-of-the-art to a model of features and mechanisms,” Visible Language, vol. 53, iss. 2, pp. 4-35, 2019.
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@article{martins2019a,
Author = {Tiago Martins and Jo{\~{a}}o Miguel Cunha and Jo{\~{a}}o Bicker and Penousal Machado},
Journal = {Visible Language},
Number = {2},
Pages = {4–35},
Publisher = {School of Design, University of Cincinnati},
Title = {Dynamic Visual Identities: from a survey of the state-of-the-art to a model of features and mechanisms},
Volume = {53},
Year = {2019}} -
P. Machado, T. Martins, H. Amaro, and P. H. Abreu, “Beyond Interactive Evolution: Expressing Intentions Through Fitness Functions,” Leonardo, vol. 49, iss. 3, pp. 251-256, 2016.
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@article{mmaa16,
Author = {Machado, Penousal and Martins, Tiago and Amaro, Hugo and Abreu, Pedro H.},
Journal = {Leonardo},
Title = {Beyond Interactive Evolution: Expressing Intentions Through Fitness Functions},
Year = {2016},
volume = "49",
number = "3",
pages = "251 — 256",
doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01103"}
In Collections
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T. Martins and P. Machado, “The garden of virtual delights,” in BRIDGES 2013 — Mathematical Art Galleries, Enschede, Netherlands: , 2013.
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@incollection{mm13,
author = {Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado},
title = {The garden of virtual delights},
booktitle = {BRIDGES 2013 — Mathematical Art Galleries},
address = {Enschede, Netherlands},
year = {2013},
}
In Proceedings
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T. Martins, J. Correia, S. Rebelo, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Portraits of No One: An Interactive Installation,” in Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Cham, 2020, pp. 104-117.
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@inproceedings{martins2020a,
Address = {Cham},
Author = {Martins, Tiago and Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Rebelo, S\'{e}rgio and Bicker, Jo\~{a}o and Machado, Penousal},
Booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design},
Editor = {Romero, Juan and Ek\'{a}rt, Anik\'{o} and Martins, Tiago and Correia, Jo\~{a}o},
Pages = {104–117},
Publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
Title = {Portraits of No One: An Interactive Installation},
Year = {2020}} -
T. Martins, S. Rebelo, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Building Typefaces as Programs: A node-based approach for modular type design,” in Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET) — Book of Proceeding, Tomar, Portugal, 2019, pp. 64-78.
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@inproceedings{martins2018b,
address = {Tomar, Portugal},
author = {Martins, Tiago and
Rebelo, S\'{e}rgio and
Bicker, Jo\~{a}o and
Machado, Penousal},
booktitle = {Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET) — Book of Proceeding},
editor = {Lu\'{i}s Moreira and
Miguel Sanches},
month = {October},
organization = {Instituto Polit{\’e}cnico de Tomar (IPT)},
pages = {64–78},
publisher = {ATIPO — Associa\c{c}\~{a}o de Tipografia de Portugal},
title = {Building Typefaces as Programs:
A node-based approach for modular type design},
year = {2019}
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J. Correia, T. Martins, and P. Machado, “Evolutionary Data Augmentation in Deep Face Detection,” in GECCO 2019 – Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2019.
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@inproceedings{correia19face,
address = {Prague, Czech Republic},
author = {Correia, Jo{\~{a}}o and Martins, Tiago and Machado, Penousal},
booktitle = {GECCO 2019 – Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference},
title = {{Evolutionary Data Augmentation in Deep Face Detection}},
year = {2019}
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P. M. Chaves, J. M. Cunha, T. Martins, and J. Bicker, “Flexibility in Dynamic Visual Identities: Exploring Variation Mechanisms to achieve Flexibility,” in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design and Digital Conference (DIGICOM), Barcelos, Portugal, November 15-16, 2019, 2019.
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@inproceedings{chaves2019digicom,
Author = {Chaves, Pedro Matos and Cunha, Jo{\~a}o Miguel and Martins, Tiago and Bicker, Jo{\~a}o},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design and Digital Conference (DIGICOM), Barcelos, Portugal, November 15-16, 2019},
Title = {Flexibility in Dynamic Visual Identities: Exploring Variation Mechanisms to achieve Flexibility},
Year = {2019}} -
T. Martins, S. Rebelo, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Portraying with Letters: An Interactive Installation,” in Proceedings of the International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 “Digital Revolutions” (IASDR 2019), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2019.
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@inproceedings{martinsRebelo2019a,
address = {Manchester, United Kingdom},
author = {Martins, Tiago and Rebelo, S\'{e}rgio and Bicker, Jo\~{a}o and Machado, Penousal},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 “Digital Revolutions” (IASDR 2019)},
publisher = {IASDR},
title = {Portraying with Letters: An Interactive Installation},
year = {2019}
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F. A. Pereira, T. Martins, S. Rebelo, and J. Bicker, “Web-based Tool for the Generation of Letterforms,” in Proceedings of the 10th Typography Meeting – Borders, 2019.
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@inproceedings{pereira2019b,
author = {Pereira, F\'{a}bio Andr\'{e} and Martins, Tiago and Rebelo, S\'{e}rgio and Bicker, Jo\~{a}o},
title = {Web-based Tool for the Generation of Letterforms},
year = {2019},
publisher = {ATIPO},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th Typography Meeting – Borders},
location = {Matosinhos, Portugal}
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S. Rebelo, T. Martins, A. Rebelo, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Using Computational Approaches in Visual Identity Design: A Visual Identity for the Design and Multimedia Courses of Faculty of Sciences and Technology of University of Coimbra,” in Proceedings of the 10th Typography Meeting “Borders”, 2019.
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@inproceedings{rebelo2019b,
author = {Rebelo, S\'{e}rgio and Martins, Tiago and Rebelo, Artur and Bicker, Jo\~{a}o and Machado, Penousal},
title = {Using Computational Approaches in Visual Identity Design: A Visual Identity for the Design and Multimedia Courses of Faculty of Sciences and Technology of University of Coimbra},
year = {2019},
publisher = {ATIPO},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th Typography Meeting “Borders”},
location = {Matosinhos, Portugal}
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F. A. Pereira, T. Martins, S. Rebelo, and J. Bicker, “Generative Type Design: Creating Glyphs from Typographical Skeletons,” in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, New York, NY, USA, 2019.
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@inproceedings{pereira2019a,
author = {Pereira, F\'{a}bio Andr\'{e} and Martins, Tiago and Rebelo, S\'{e}rgio and Bicker, Jo\~{a}o},
title = {Generative Type Design: Creating Glyphs from Typographical Skeletons},
year = {2019},
isbn = {9781450372503},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3359852.3359866},
doi = {10.1145/3359852.3359866},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts},
articleno = {19},
numpages = {8},
keywords = {Generative design, Type design, Typographical skeleton, Typography},
location = {Braga, Portugal},
series = {ARTECH 2019}
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J. Parente, T. Martins, and J. Bicker, “Data-driven Logotype Design,” in 22 International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2018), 2018.
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@inproceedings{parente2018a,
Author = {J\'{e}ssica Parente and Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Bicker},
Booktitle = {22 International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2018)},
Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Month = {July},
Publisher = {IEEE},
Title = {Data-driven Logotype Design},
Year = {2018}} -
J. Parente, T. Martins, and J. Bicker, “Generative Type Design,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
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@inproceedings{parente2018b,
Author = {J\'{e}ssica Parente and Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Bicker},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Month = {11/2018},
Publisher = {Instituto Polit\'{e}cnico de Tomar},
Title = {Generative Type Design},
Year = {2018}} -
T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils,” in Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Cham, 2018, pp. 299-314.
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@inproceedings{martins2018a,
Address = {Cham},
Author = {Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Correia and Ernesto Costa and Penousal Machado},
Booktitle = {Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design},
Editor = {Liapis, Antonios and Romero Cardalda, Juan Jes\'{u}s and Ek\'{a}rt, Anik\'{o}},
Isbn = {978-3-319-77583-8},
Pages = {299–314},
Publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
Title = {Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils},
Year = {2018}} -
G. Gostyaeva, P. Machado, and T. Martins, “Evolving Virtual Ecology,” in ArtsIT 2018 – 7th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation, Braga, Portugal, 2018.
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@inproceedings{gostyaeva2018a,
Address = {Braga, Portugal},
Author = {Gloriya Gostyaeva and Penousal Machado and Tiago Martins},
Booktitle = {ArtsIT 2018 – 7th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity \& Game Creation},
Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Title = {Evolving Virtual Ecology},
Year = {2018}} -
T. Martins, S. Rebelo, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Building Typefaces as Programs: A node-based approach for modular type design,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
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@inproceedings{martins2018b,
Author = {Tiago Martins and S\'{e}rgio Rebelo and Jo\~{a}o Bicker and Penousal Machado},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:58:10 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:58:49 +0000},
Month = {11/2018},
Organization = {Polytechnic Institute of Tomar},
Publisher = {Association for Computational Creativity (ACC)},
Title = {Building Typefaces as Programs: A node-based approach for modular type design},
Year = {2018}} -
S. Rebelo, T. Martins, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Typography as Image: Experiments on Typographic Portraits,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
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@inproceedings{rebelo2018a,
Author = {S\'{e}rgio Rebelo and Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Bicker and Penousal Machado},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:56:26 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:57:56 +0000},
Editor = {Associa\c{c}\~{a}o de TIpografia de Portugal (ATIPO)},
Month = {11/2018},
Organization = {Polytechnic Institute of Tomar},
Publisher = {Instituto Polit\'{e}cnico de Tomar},
Title = {Typography as Image: Experiments on Typographic Portraits},
Year = {2018}} -
J. Caetano, P. Hardman, and T. Martins, “Interactive Animated Alphabet,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
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@inproceedings{caetano2018a,
Author = {Joana Caetano and Paul Hardman and Tiago Martins},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
Month = {11/2018},
Publisher = {Instituto Polit\'{e}cnico de Tomar},
Title = {Interactive Animated Alphabet},
Year = {2018}} -
J. Correia, T. Martins, P. Martins, and P. Machado, “X-Faces: The eXploit Is Out There,” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016), 2016, pp. 164-182.
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@inproceedings{cmmm16,
Author = {Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Martins, Tiago and Martins, Pedro and Machado, Penousal},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016)},
Date-Modified = {2016-10-06 14:47:33 +0000},
Editor = {Pachet, Fran{\c c}ois and Cardoso, Amilcar and Corruble, Vincent and Ghedini, Fiammetta},
Month = {07/2016},
Pages = {164-182},
Publisher = {Sony CSL Paris, France},
Title = {X-Faces: The eXploit Is Out There},
Year = {2016}} -
J. Cunha, T. Martins, P. Martins, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “TypeAdviser: a type design aiding-tool,” in Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2016, 2016.
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@inproceedings{cunha2016a,
Author = {J. Cunha and T. Martins and P. Martins and J. Bicker and P. Machado},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2016},
Date-Added = {2016-10-10 14:33:41 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2016-10-10 14:33:41 +0000},
Title = {TypeAdviser: a type design aiding-tool},
Year = {2016}} -
T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs,” in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016, New York, NY, USA, 2016, pp. 261-268.
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@inproceedings{martins2016a,
Acmid = {2908907},
Address = {New York, NY, USA},
Author = {Martins, Tiago and Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Costa, Ernesto and Machado, Penousal},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016},
Date-Added = {2017-03-27 17:48:36 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2017-03-27 17:48:36 +0000},
Doi = {10.1145/2908812.2908907},
Isbn = {978-1-4503-4206-3},
Keywords = {deep learning, evolutionary computation, evolutionary design, genetic algorithms, type design},
Location = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
Numpages = {8},
Pages = {261–268},
Publisher = {ACM},
Series = {GECCO ’16},
Title = {Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs},
Url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2908812.2908907},
Year = {2016},
Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2908812.2908907},
Bdsk-Url-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908907}
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T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design,” in Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design – 4th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings, 2015, pp. 136-147.
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@inproceedings{mccm15,
author = {Tiago Martins and
Jo{\~{a}}o Correia and
Ernesto Costa and
Penousal Machado},
editor = {Colin Johnson and
Adri{\'{a}}n Carballal and
Jo{\~{a}}o Correia},
title = {Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design},
booktitle = {Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
– 4th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark,
April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {9027},
pages = {136–147},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2015},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16498-4_13},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-16498-4_13},
timestamp = {Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:39:55 +0100},
biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/evoW/MartinsCCM15},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
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P. Machado, T. Martins, H. Amaro, and P. H. Abreu, “An Interface for Fitness Function Design,” in Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design – Third International Conference, EvoMUSART 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014. Proceedings, 2014.
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@inproceedings{mmaa14,
author = {Penousal Machado and Tiago Martins and Hugo Amaro and Pedro H. Abreu},
title = {An Interface for Fitness Function Design},
year = {2014},
editor = {Juan Romero and
James McDermott and
Jo{\~{a}}o Correia},
booktitle = {Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art
and Design – Third International Conference, EvoMUSART
2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014. Proceedings},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {8601}
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T. Martins and P. Machado, “Drawing Sounds,” in xCoAx 2014: Computation Communication Aesthetics and X, Porto, Portugal, 2014, pp. 430-437.
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@inproceedings{mm14,
Address = {Porto, Portugal},
Author = {Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado},
Booktitle = {xCoAx 2014: Computation Communication Aesthetics and X},
Date-Modified = {2015-05-04 22:31:46 +0000},
Editor = {Miguel Carvalhais and Mario Verdicchio},
Pages = {430–437},
Publisher = {University of Porto},
Title = {Drawing Sounds},
Type = {Conference Proceedings},
Year = {2014}} -
T. Martins, P. Machado, and A. Rebelo, “The garden of virtual delights: virtual fauna for a botanical garden,” in Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH ’13, Anaheim, CA, USA, July 21-25, 2013, Poster Proceedings, 2013, p. 26.
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@inproceedings{mmr13,
author = {Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado and Artur Rebelo},
title = {The garden of virtual delights: virtual fauna for a botanical garden},
booktitle = {Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH ’13, Anaheim, CA, USA, July
21-25, 2013, Poster Proceedings},
pages = {26},
ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2503385.2503413},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
publisher = {ACM},
year = {2013},
isbn = {978-1-4503-2342-0}
}