Automatic Asian art: computers converting photos to Asian paintings using humanistic fuzzy logic rules
Author(s): Farzam Farbiz, Adrian David Cheok, Paul Lincoln.
Proceedings: Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 2003, Sketches & applications,
2003.
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Abstract:
We describe a novel system that allows generation of Asian ink
paintings from photographs. Asian ink painting began as a traditional
art form over three thousand years ago. This form of art
work uses what is traditionally known as the “four treasures”: the
ink, brush, stone, and paper (commonly kenzo fibre type paper).
Western art also has the type of ink watercolor style of painting and
art that uses both water as well as brushes. However, the Asian
art technique has significant differences with Western watercolor
styles in both technique and media. In Asian art, the artist is not
so much concerned with an exact or literal of the objects or the
scene. Instead the interest is to express only the essence of the objects
in the scene. Hence, Asian style ink art normally consists of
only a few simple strokes on the paper that are intended to convey
the artists heart-felt feelings regarding the object being painted.
In fact in Asian art simplicity is a key concept, and feelings are
expressed by the speed, placement, pressure, and movement of the
brush, as well as the shading of the brush strokes [Wucius 1991].