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 # SimplePainterlyRendering
-Processing implementation of the algotihm propose by Hertzman et al.: 
+Processing implementation of the algotihm propose by Hertzmann et al.: 
 
 Aaron Hertzmann. 1998. Painterly rendering with curved brush strokes of multiple sizes. In Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '98). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 453-460. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/280814.280951