The Droplet Virtual Brush for Chinese Calligraphic Character Modeling
Author(s): Xiaofeng Mi, Jie Xu, Min Tang, Jinxiang Dong.
Proceedings: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'02),
2002.
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Abstract:
This paper proposes a virtual brush model based on
droplet operation and its application on retrieving
character outlines and character modeling in Chinese
calligraphy style. In the proposed approach, a virtual
brush model based on droplet operation is applied to
produce vivid character outlines. The droplet model helps
to compute stroke area with well-defined geometry
information and leads to the feasibility to retrieve the
outlines of characters with well-defined geometry
representation. Further more, the variations of the model
can express various Chinese brush styles, so by using the
droplet model, we successfully overcome the poor
expressive ability of the previous curve-offset method. The
complex evaluation of stroke area based on physical
solid-model brush is also eliminated since the simplicity
of the model.