A Computational Approach to Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

• Main Authors: Xu, Songhua (Author), Lau, Francis C. M. (Author), Pan, Yunhe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Arts.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computer graphics.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Computer Graphics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

"A Computational Approach to Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy" is a technical book on computer science and its applications in the arts. It focuses on Oriental digital arts, in particular Chinese arts and painting, offering a multi-disciplinary treatment from the angles of computer...

Table of Contents:

• Computer Science and Fine Arts
• Computer Science in Painting: A Brief Survey
• Computer Science in Paintings or Drawings
• Interactive Digital Painting and Calligraphy
• to Interactive Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
• Basic Algorithmic Framework of a Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System
• Performance Enhanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System
• Pigment Component of an Advanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System
• Rendering Component of an Advanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System
• Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy
• Principles of Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy
• Two Perspectives on Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy
• A Preliminary Attempt at Evaluating the Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy
• Animating Chinese Paintings
• Animating Chinese Paintings through Stroke-based Decomposition
• Perspectives
• Final Fantasies for Digital Painting and Calligraphy.