"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 graphics, interactive techniques, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. The book also discusses the unique difficulties and challenges of using the computer to produce Oriental arts, including research results by the authors and their lessons and engineering experiences behind these efforts. Songhua Xu is a computer scientist of Zhejiang University and Yale University, as well as an honorary researcher of the University of Hong Kong. Francis C.M. Lau is Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he leads the Systems Research Group in the Department of Computer Science. Yunhe Pan is Professor of Computer Science at Zhejiang University as well as Deputy President of Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Author(s): Songhua Xu, Francis C.M. Lau, Yunhe Pan
Series: Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 380
Cover......Page 1
A Computational Approach
to Digital Chinese Painting
and Calligraphy......Page 4
ADVANCED TOPICS
IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA......Page 2
ISBN 3540881476......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 13
Part I
Introduction......Page 21
1
Computer Science and Fine Arts......Page 22
Part II
Computer Science in Painting: A Brief Survey......Page 40
2
Computer Science in Paintings or Drawings......Page 41
Part III
Interactive Digital Painting and Calligraphy......Page 64
3
Introduction to Interactive Digital Chinese
Painting and Calligraphy......Page 66
4
Basic Algorithmic Framework of a Virtual
Hairy Paintbrush System......Page 73
5
Performance Enhanced Virtual Hairy
Paintbrush System......Page 116
6
Pigment Component of an Advanced Virtual
Hairy Paintbrush System......Page 141
7
Rendering Component of an Advanced Virtual
Hairy Paintbrush System......Page 170
Part IV
Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese
Calligraphy......Page 209
8
Principles of Automatic Generation of Artistic
Chinese Calligraphy......Page 212
9
Two Perspectives on Automatic Generation of
Artistic Chinese Calligraphy......Page 235
10
A Preliminary Attempt at Evaluating the
Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy......Page 260
Part V
Animating Chinese Paintings......Page 294
11
Animating Chinese Paintings through
Stroke-based Decomposition......Page 295
Part VI
Perspectives......Page 331
12
Final Fantasies for Digital Painting and
Calligraphy......Page 332
Index......Page 357
