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arxiv: 2602.12280 · v2 · pith:5PMIFUQHnew · submitted 2026-02-12 · 💻 cs.CV

Stroke of Surprise: Progressive Semantic Illusions in Vector Sketching

Huai-Hsun Cheng , Siang-Ling Zhang , Yu-Lun Liu This is my paper

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Stroke of Surprise is a framework that generates vector sketches undergoing semantic transformation from one concept to another by adding strokes, using dual-branch SDS and overlay loss for optimization.

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The work focuses on making drawings that trick the eye in a new way. Normally, illusions use static images that look different from different angles or when overlapped. Here, the trick happens over time as the drawing is created stroke by stroke. The computer figures out a sequence of lines where the first few lines look like one thing, say a duck, but when more lines are added, it becomes a sheep. This is done by optimizing the strokes so they serve both purposes at different stages. To achieve this, the system uses a special optimization technique called dual-branch Score Distillation Sampling. This helps guide the generation to match two different target concepts at once. They also add an Overlay Loss to make sure the new strokes complement the old ones instead of just hiding them. The result is a sketch that has two valid interpretations depending on how many strokes have been drawn so far. The authors claim their method creates stronger and more recognizable illusions compared to previous approaches. This moves the idea of visual anagrams, which are usually spatial, into the temporal domain of drawing sequences.

Core claim

Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in recognizability and illusion strength, successfully expanding visual anagrams from the spatial to the temporal dimension.

Load-bearing premise

The dual-constraint that initial prefix strokes must form a coherent object (e.g., a duck) while simultaneously serving as the structural foundation for a second concept (e.g., a sheep) upon adding delta strokes, with the existence of a discoverable common structural subspace.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.12280 by Huai-Hsun Cheng, Siang-Ling Zhang, Yu-Lun Liu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Progressive semantic illusions from text. Given a pair of text prompts (a), our method generates a vector sketch that evolves over time. The initial generated sketch (b) depicts the first concept (e.g., “pig”). By adding further generated strokes (c), the drawing is transformed into a totally different object (e.g., “angel”). This creates a Stroke of Surprise: the process subverts the viewer’s expectation … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Challenges in progressive illusion sketching. (a) Raster￾based methods (e.g., Nano Banana Pro) rely on destructive editing, modifying the initial structure to fit the final target and thus vio￾lating the progressive constraint. (b) Vector-based baselines (e.g., SketchDreamer [93] or SketchAgent [110]) employ a greedy strat￾egy, where specific Phase 1 details become semantic noise or clutter in Phase 2. (c)… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Pipeline overview. Our method optimizes a set of learnable stroke parameters, which are divided into prefix strokes Sprefix and delta strokes Sdelta. The optimization process involves two parallel branches. In the top branch, only the prefix strokes are rendered by a differentiable rasterizer to create a partial sketch (e.g., a rabbit). This sketch is then guided by a pre-trained, frozen text-to-image diff… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: VLM-based evaluation and ranking pipeline. We em￾ploy GPT-4o to assess the quality of illusion sketches. (a) For Phase 1, the model evaluates the recognizability of the prefix sketch (Sprefix). (b) For Phase 2, the model evaluates the full sketch (Sfull) while simultaneously comparing it against the delta strokes (Sdelta). This comparison ensures that the prefix strokes provide essential structural scaffol… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Multi-phase pipeline. We scale to K phases (e.g., Apple→Sheep→Einstein) using cumulative stroke subsets (S1, . . . , SK). Parallel branches optimize each cumulative sketch I1:i against prompt pi. Joint optimization ensures early strokes receive gradients from all subsequent losses (PL i SDS), creating a structure primed for the entire evolutionary sequence. VLM-based Quality Assessment. We employ GPT-4o to… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparisons. We compare against SketchDreamer [93], SketchAgent [110], and Nano Banana Pro. (a) SketchDreamer produces noisy strokes, causing severe visual clutter. (b) SketchAgent yields overly abstract results with low recognizability. (c) Nano Banana Pro relies on destructive editing (e.g., overwriting the pig structure to draw an angel), failing the progressive constraint despite high image… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Phase 2 extension with fixed prefix (ours). We evaluate how methods extend a fixed Phase 1 sketch generated by our method. Interestingly, baselines produce better Phase 2 results here than in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Ablation on optimization strategy. (a) Sequential gen￾eration yields a rigid Phase 1, creating structural conflicts (e.g., the duck’s beak) that fail Phase 2 repurposing. (b) Joint optimization (Ours) identifies a common structural subspace, yielding a ver￾satile Phase 1 where features serve both interpretations (e.g., the beak doubles as the cow’s ear). (d) Scattered (e) Gathered (Ours) (f) Gathered + Sh… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: User study. (Left) Preference: Participants overwhelm￾ingly favor our method (green) over baselines across both ranking strategies. (Right) Reliability: A high success rate (¿97%) con￾firms that our pipeline consistently yields valid illusions, ensuring robustness against the inherent stochasticity of the generation pro￾cess. lected our method in 67.7% of GPT-ranking and 87.1% of Metric-ranking cases ( [P… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Ablation of overlay loss (Loverlay). (a) Without Loverlay, the model generates redundant strokes atop existing ones to satisfy the semantic target, resulting in visual clutter (red circle) and high intersection artifacts. (b) With Loverlay, the generated strokes (Sdelta) become spatially complementary to the prefix (Sprefix), avoiding collisions to produce a clean, coherent line drawing. Less strokes More… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Analysis of stroke count. (Top) Simple concepts (horse) form recognizable silhouettes with minimal strokes (8→16). (Bottom) While complex concepts (Einstein) require a larger budget (32→64) to capture essential details. Fewer strokes result in abstraction. Our default (16→32) balances structural sim￾plicity and semantic fidelity. semantic fidelity. 4.4. Applications We demonstrate versatility beyond stand… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Additional 2-phase progressive illusion results produced by our method. apple rabbit pig horse plush bear chef apple sheep Einstein pig rabbit angel rabbit cow greek statue apple chicken angel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Additional 3-phase progressive illusion results produced by our method. 9 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Additional qualitative comparisons. CLIP!"#$%&: 33.0; CLIP'()): 31.7; CLIP*#)+,: 16.1 Φ IR!"#$%& : 0.920; Φ IR'()) : 0.629; Φ IR*#)+, : 0.048 HPS!"#$%&: 0.242; HPS'()): 0.224; HPS*#)+,: 0.167 Ranking Score: 0.404; Rank: #1 CLIP!"#$%&: 30.9; CLIP'()): 33.0; CLIP*#)+,: 17.6 Φ IR!"#$%& : 0.858; Φ IR'()) : 0.532; Φ IR*#)+, : 0.050 HPS!"#$%&: 0.222; HPS'()): 0.198; HPS*#)+,: 0.171 Ranking Score: 0.212; Rank: #… view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Metric-based ranking. Ranking Score: 0.765; Rank: #1 Phase 1 Score: 0.9 Phase 2 Score: 0.85 Ranking Score: 0.765; Rank: #1 Phase 1 Score: 0.9 Phase 2 Score: 0.85 Ranking Score: 0.7225; Rank: #3 Phase 1 Score: 0.85 Phase 2 Score: 0.85 Ranking Score: 0.7225; Rank: #3 Phase 1 Score: 0.85 Phase 2 Score: 0.85 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Extension on vector graph. carrot rabbit apple pig [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_20.png] view at source ↗
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Visual illusions traditionally rely on spatial manipulations such as multi-view consistency. In this work, we introduce Progressive Semantic Illusions, a novel vector sketching task where a single sketch undergoes a dramatic semantic transformation through the sequential addition of strokes. We present Stroke of Surprise, a generative framework that optimizes vector strokes to satisfy distinct semantic interpretations at different drawing stages. The core challenge lies in the "dual-constraint": initial prefix strokes must form a coherent object (e.g., a duck) while simultaneously serving as the structural foundation for a second concept (e.g., a sheep) upon adding delta strokes. To address this, we propose a sequence-aware joint optimization framework driven by a dual-branch Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) mechanism. Unlike sequential approaches that freeze the initial state, our method dynamically adjusts prefix strokes to discover a "common structural subspace" valid for both targets. Furthermore, we introduce a novel Overlay Loss that enforces spatial complementarity, ensuring structural integration rather than occlusion. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in recognizability and illusion strength, successfully expanding visual anagrams from the spatial to the temporal dimension. Project page: https://stroke-of-surprise.github.io/

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Summary. The paper introduces Progressive Semantic Illusions as a new vector sketching task in which a single sketch undergoes semantic transformation via sequential stroke addition. It proposes the Stroke of Surprise framework, which employs sequence-aware joint optimization driven by a dual-branch Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) mechanism to discover a common structural subspace satisfying two distinct semantic targets (e.g., prefix strokes forming a duck that later supports a sheep), together with a novel Overlay Loss to enforce spatial complementarity rather than occlusion. The authors claim that extensive experiments show the method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in recognizability and illusion strength, thereby extending visual anagrams from the spatial to the temporal domain.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold, the work would be a meaningful contribution to generative computer vision by formalizing and solving a temporal extension of visual anagrams. The dual-branch SDS and Overlay Loss constitute concrete technical advances for handling the dual-constraint problem, and the absence of free parameters in the core optimization is a positive feature. The approach could influence downstream applications in creative tools and interactive illustration if the progressive coherence is robustly demonstrated.

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  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (dual-branch SDS and dual-constraint description): the central claim that prefix strokes achieve independent coherence for the first concept while serving as foundation for the second relies on joint optimization; no explicit loss term (beyond the final Overlay Loss) is described that enforces standalone recognizability of the prefix alone. This leaves open the possibility that observed success arises from simultaneous gradient balancing rather than discovery of a truly independent common structural subspace, which is load-bearing for the dual-constraint formulation.
  2. [§4] §4 (experiments): the strongest claim of significant outperformance in recognizability and illusion strength is presented without reference to specific quantitative metrics, ablation tables isolating the contribution of the dual-branch versus sequential freezing, or user-study protocols for illusion strength. Concrete results (e.g., Table X or Figure Y) are required to substantiate the temporal-expansion claim.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] Clarify the precise definition and parameterization of 'delta strokes' and the temporal sequencing mechanism to ensure reproducibility of the progressive addition process.
  2. [§5] Add a short discussion of failure modes, such as cases where no common structural subspace exists for the chosen concept pairs.

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to improve clarity on the optimization mechanism and to provide explicit experimental details and references.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (dual-branch SDS and dual-constraint description): the central claim that prefix strokes achieve independent coherence for the first concept while serving as foundation for the second relies on joint optimization; no explicit loss term (beyond the final Overlay Loss) is described that enforces standalone recognizability of the prefix alone. This leaves open the possibility that observed success arises from simultaneous gradient balancing rather than discovery of a truly independent common structural subspace, which is load-bearing for the dual-constraint formulation.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting this point of potential ambiguity. The dual-branch SDS applies the first semantic target’s score distillation loss exclusively to the prefix strokes (enforcing standalone coherence for the initial concept) while the second branch applies the loss to the full stroke sequence. Joint optimization then discovers the common structural subspace by allowing prefix adjustments under both constraints simultaneously. We agree the description could be more explicit and have added a clarifying subsection in §3 that isolates the contribution of each SDS branch to the dual constraints, along with an updated abstract sentence referencing this mechanism. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experiments): the strongest claim of significant outperformance in recognizability and illusion strength is presented without reference to specific quantitative metrics, ablation tables isolating the contribution of the dual-branch versus sequential freezing, or user-study protocols for illusion strength. Concrete results (e.g., Table X or Figure Y) are required to substantiate the temporal-expansion claim.

    Authors: We thank the referee for noting the need for clearer substantiation. The submitted manuscript contains quantitative recognizability metrics (CLIP similarity), an ablation comparing dual-branch SDS to sequential freezing, and a user study on illusion strength, but cross-references were insufficient. We have revised §4 to explicitly cite Table 2 (quantitative results), Figure 5 (ablation isolating dual-branch contribution), and the supplementary material (user-study protocol with 100 participants and pairwise comparison design). These additions directly support the outperformance claims and the temporal extension of visual anagrams. revision: yes

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No circularity: derivation extends SDS via independent dual-branch optimization and overlay loss without reducing to self-defined inputs.

full rationale

The paper's core contribution is a sequence-aware joint optimization using a dual-branch SDS mechanism plus a novel Overlay Loss to enforce spatial complementarity for progressive semantic illusions. This extends prior SDS work with new components (dual-branch, overlay) to address the dual-constraint of prefix strokes being coherent for both initial and final concepts. No equations or claims reduce by construction to fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations that bear the load of uniqueness, or ansatzes smuggled from prior author work. The method is presented as an engineering extension validated by experiments, remaining self-contained against external benchmarks like standard SDS baselines.

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Review based solely on abstract; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are detailed. The approach assumes existence of optimizable common structural subspaces for dual targets and relies on prior SDS techniques.

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  • domain assumption Existence of a common structural subspace valid for both semantic targets that can be discovered by dynamic adjustment of prefix strokes
    Central to the dual-constraint and sequence-aware joint optimization described in the abstract.

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