Style-based classification of Chinese ink and wash paintings

Physical-based Model of Ink Diffusion in Chinese Paintings

Chinese ink painting is a traditional art that is over three thousand years old. It is a type of non-photorealistic rendering. However, research on Chinese ink painting is scarce. Simulating the behavior of Chinese ink is challenging work because ink moves in a complex manner. This paper presents a new method for simulating ink diffusion based on observation and analysis. The proposed method ca...

Synthesis of Oil-Style Paintings

Non-photorealistic rendering is an important research topic in computer graphics, where painterly (or stroke-based) rendering has received intensive attention from researchers in recent years. The goal of this paper is to design a fully automatic algorithm, which is able to turn a photograph into an oil-style painting. Different from the existing approaches that use real brush stroke images as ...

Modeling 2.5D Plants from Ink Paintings

Chinese ink painting, known as sumi-e, is a traditional art form based on careful placement of expressive brush strokes. To extend such brush strokes from their paper form, we propose a system that can digitize and transform such paintings into 2.5D sprites, while preserving the artist’s unique style. We apply our paintstroke-extraction technique to plants, the most traditional subject of sumi-...

Animating Chinese Paintings through Stroke-Based Decomposition1

This paper proposes a technique to animate a “Chinese style” painting given its image. We first extract descriptions of the brush strokes that hypothetically produced it. The key to the extraction process is the use of a brush stroke library, which is obtained by digitizing single brush strokes drawn by an experienced artist. The steps in our extraction technique are to first segment the input ...

Reclaiming the Indigenous Style of Kalighat Paintings