On the Effects of Haptic Display in Brush and Ink Simulation for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Author(s): Jeng-sheng Yeh, Ting-yu Lien, Ming Ouhyoung.
Proceedings: 10th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG'02), pp. 439, Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 09 - 11,
2002.
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Abstract:
In this paper, we develop an interactive haptic system, which can be further aid for digital Chinese painting. When an artist is holding our force feedback device, one feels like holding a real painting brush with all the contact and bending forces, since the viscosity, friction, and the bending force of a brush touching the paper are simulated. First we derive a physical dynamics model as bending springs for bristles to construct a 3D brush. Then we simulate the ink-water transfer system for ink spreading and color blending. Our system is a real-time system and users can interact with it holding a digital brush supported by either a Phantom force feedback device or a "WACOM pressure sensing pen" on a tablet. A pilot experiment was conducted, and the results show that brush writing with haptic feedback is better than that of same visual display but without haptic feedback.