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Droplet: A virtual brush model to simulate Chinese calligraphy and painting

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This paper proposes a virtual brush model based on droplet operation to simulate Chinese calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting in real time. Two ways of applying droplet model to virtual calligraphy and painting are discussed in detail. The second droplet model is more elaborated and can produce more vivid results while being slightly more time-consuming. The novel feature of the proposed droplet virtual brush model successfully enables the simulation painting system to overcome the poor expressional ability of virtual brush based on particle system and avoids the complex evaluation of physical brush with solid model. The model, derived from the actual calligraphy and painting experience, due to the simplicity of the droplet operation and its powerful expressive ability, considerably improves the performance of the simulation system and maintains painting effect comparable with real brush by supporting special Chinese brush effect such as dry brush, feng and stroke diffusion.

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  1. CAD and CG State Key Lab of China, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Xiao-Feng Mi, Min Tang & Jin-Xiang Dong

  2. Artificial Intelligence Institute, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Xiao-Feng Mi, Min Tang & Jin-Xiang Dong

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This research is supported by the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China (Grant No.2002CB312106), a grant from Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No.2000033554), and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Grant Nos.6001107, M603129).

Xiao-Feng Mi was born in 1978. He received the B.S. degree in computer science in 2000 and is expected to receive the M.S. degree in the spring of 2003. Now he is a research assistant in the CAD&CG State Key Lab of China, Zhejiang University. His research interests include computer graphics, computer vision and distributed solid modeling.

Min Tang was born in 1974. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in computer science from Zhejiang University in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively. Now he is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests include solid modeling, surface modeling, and computer graphics.

Jin-Xiang Dong was born in 1945. He is a research professor and Ph.D. supervisor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Zhejiang University. In the years from 1993 to 1994 he worked as an adjunct associate professor at Department of Computer Science in the University of Southern California, USA. Now he is the vice director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the vice director of the CAD&CG State Key Lab of China, Zhejiang University. His research interests include computer graphics, CAD and CIMS.

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Mi, XF., Tang, M. & Dong, JX. Droplet: A virtual brush model to simulate Chinese calligraphy and painting. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 19, 393–404 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02944909

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