Gradient Descent in the ALPS: Abstracted Low-Poly Stylization and Fabrication

The paper presents a method for generating fabricable 2D low-poly style images from a given input image by optimizing the mesh geometry, topology and a fixed color palette using score distillation sampling.

2026 · Ruben Wiersma*, Alexandre Binninger*, Peizhuo Li, Tanguy Magne, Annika Oehri, Aviv Segall, Danielle Luterbacher, Marcel Padilla, Jing Ren, Olga Sorkine-Hornung · ACM Transactions on Graphics