BACKGROUND Chinese calligraphy handwriting is the practice of traditional Chinese brush writing, researches found calligraphy had therapeutic effects on certain diseases, some authors argued that calligraphy might have relaxation effect. OBJECTIVES This study was to compare the effects of calligraphy handwriting with those of progressive muscle relaxation and imagery training in Chinese Nasop...

(received 4 jan 2014, accepted 2 mar 2014) abstract mazandaran, the northern province of iran, as an area with a different climate and political situation in their own special place has been allocated with itself in the history of this land. researchers familiar with the history, culture and art of ancient civilizations, have known this place a good platform for own exploring and searching. the...

Paper collections of historical calligraphy objects in Libraries and museums are scanned into document images to serve the academic society. However, these digitized collections are in image format, lacking the technology to search by image content. This paper proposes a search engine for searching calligraphy image content. First, 2503 page images are segmented into characters and components. ...

there is not adequate information available about traditional instruction system in the field of visual arts in the pre-modern period. instruction of calligraphy can be considered as traditional instruction of art in a way that its guidelines and instructional texts are remained almost intact. instruction of calligraphy is implemented in aprofessor-student procedure and is accompanied with vari...

A style-consistent calligraphy tablet designing approach is proposed in this paper. The layout of the tablet is calculated firstly. The calligraphy characters are retrieved from the ones written by the specific calligrapher, while the style-consistency calligraphy character synthesis approach is applied to synthesize the non-existent ones. Finally, these characters are adjusted so that their st...

In this work, we aim to transform handwritten Chinese characters into calligraphy style characters on a stroke-by-stroke basis. We extracted strokes from a set of handwritten characters by identifying the primary orientation of each stroke. We then adopted autoencoder and self-organizing maps to cluster the extracted strokes into 100 different groups. Using the neural networks obtained, we clus...