This paper presents a novel Chinese calligraphy and painting system, which serves as an expressive vehicle for interactively creating Chinese traditional calligraphy and ink-wash painting works. We developed a brush model which gives the user natural control of complex brush strokes. This model enhances the realistic sense of the user’s manipulating the pen with the pressure sense. We also deve...

The relationship between the activity of painting and performance of stereotyped and other stress-related behaviour was investigated in four captive Asian elephants at Melbourne Zoo, Australia. The activity involved the elephant being instructed to paint on a canvas by its keeper in front of an audience. Painting by elephants in zoos is commonly believed to be a form of enrichment, but this ass...

This paper presents a novel interactive system for guiding artists to paint using traditional media and tools. The enabling technology is a multi-projector display capable of controlling the appearance of an artist’s canvas. Artists are guided by this display-on-canvas to execute painting techniques. The artist paints according to a linear process of painting by numbers, one layer at a time. Ea...

Complex probes used in fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) usually contain repetitive DNA sequences. For chromosome painting, in situ suppression of these repetitive DNA sequences has been well established. Standard painting protocols require large amounts of an unlabeled 'blocking agent', for instance Cot-1 DNA. Recently, it has become possible to remove repetitive DNA sequences from lib...

Chromosome 'painting' refers to the hybridization of fluorescently labeled chromosome-specific, composite probe pools to cytological preparations. Chromosome painting allows the visualization of individual chromosomes in metaphase or interphase cells and the identification of both numerical and structural chromosomal aberrations in human pathology with high sensitivity and specificity. In addit...

Although quite many qualitative studies on painting in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been conducted, there is a lack of quantitative studies, examining the ability to paint in people with AD in relation to disease stages, and to what extent instructions are associated with actual performance. The present study aimed at investigating the capability to paint among nonartist AD participants (N = 1...

The paper introduces the segmentation method of binary image and grey level image into the design of simulated pattern painting. They are region segmentation method based on seeds and region segmenting and merging method. Firstly according to the design characteristic of simulated pattern painting, it carries on the chromatic image segmentation regarding chromatic aberration as distance. Second...

This paper presents a human machine interface, which helps elderly people learn how to become aware of their physical state and how to influence it. One of the biggest requirements for such a system is to provide an intuitive interface which does not overexert an elderly person, while also being easily accepted. Here, the connection of art and computer science offers the ideal outlet for such a...

We use relaxation to produce painted imagery from images and video. An energy function is first specified; a painting is then generated by performing a search for a painting with minimal energy. The appeal of this strategy is that, ideally, we need only specify what we want, not how to directly compute it. Because the energy function is very difficult to optimize, we use a relaxation algorithm ...