Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A virtual painting knife

  • Original Article
  • Published:
The Visual Computer Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Recently, in the area of non-photorealistic rendering, there has been a significant effort in digital painting research to simulate traditional painting styles and painting pigments. In particular, the simulation of painting tools is very important because this enables an intuitive painting experience for a user and generates rich painting effects. Many painting systems have been proposed using brushes, but less for other painting tools. As a result, there is still a limitation in the variety of painting effects that can be generated. In this paper, we propose a method to simulate painting using a painting knife, which is an important tool in oil painting. We model a painting knife and model the pigments such that the system is suitable for realizing the impasto style. We also present a technique for simulating the interaction between a painting knife and pigments on a canvas in real-time.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Adobe Photoshop. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.htm

  2. COREL Painter. http://www.corel.com/painter/

  3. Curtis, C.J., Anderson, S.E., Seims, J.E., Fleischer, K.W., Salesin, D.H.: Computer-generated watercolor. In: Proc. SIGGRAPH 97, pp. 461–468 (1997)

  4. Salisbury, M.P., Wong, M.T., Hughes, J.F., Salesin, D.H.: Orientable textures for image-based pen-and-ink illustration. In: Proc. SIGGRAPH 97, pp. 401–406 (1997)

  5. Hertzmann, A.: Painterly rendering with curved brush strokes of multiple sizes. In: Proc. SIGGRAPH 98, pp. 453–460 (1998)

  6. Hertzmann, A., Jacobs, C.E., Oliver, N., Curless, B., Salesin, D.H.: Image analogies. In: Proc. SIGGRAPH 2001, pp. 327–340 (2001)

  7. Baxter, W.V., Scheib, V., Lin, M.C., Manocha, D.: DAB: interactive haptic painting with 3D virtual brushes. In: Proc. SIGGRAPH 2001, pp. 461–468 (2001)

  8. Baxter, W.V., Wendt, J., Lin, M.C.: IMPaSTo: a realistic model for paint. In: Proc. NPAR 2004, pp. 45–56 (2004)

  9. Baxter, W.V., Liu, Y., Lin, M.C.: A viscous paint model for interactive applications. Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds 15(3–4), 433–441 (2004)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Chu, N.S., Tai, C.L.: MoXi: real-time ink dispersion in absorbent paper. ACM Trans. Graph. 24(3), 504–511 (2005)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Rudolf, D., Mould, D., Neufeld, E.: Simulating wax crayons. In: Proc. Pacific Graphics 2003, pp. 163–172 (2003)

  12. Rudolf, D., Mould, D., Neufeld, E.: A bidirectional deposition model of wax crayons. Comput. Graph. Forum 24(1), 27–39 (2005)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Takagi, S., Fujishiro, I., Nakajima, M.: Volumetric modeling of artistic techniques in colored pencil drawing. In: Proc. Pacific Graphics ‘99, pp. 250–258 (1999)

  14. Matsui, H., Johan, H., Nishita, T.: Creating colored pencil style images by drawing strokes based on boundaries of regions. In: Proc. Computer Graphics International 2005, pp. 148–155 (2005)

  15. Baxter, W.V., Lin, M.C.: A versatile interactive 3D brush model. In: Proc. Pacific Graphics 2004, pp. 319–328 (2004)

  16. Chu, N.S., Tai, C.L.: Real-time painting with an expressive virtual chinese brush. IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl. 24(5), 76–85 (2004)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Saito, S., Nakajima, M.: Physically based 3D brush model for interactive painting. J. IPSJ 41(3), 608–615 (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Laerhoven, T.V., Reeth, F.V.: Brush up your painting skills: realistic brush design for interactive painting applications. Visual Comput. 23(9), 763–771 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Murakami, K., Tsuruno, R., Genda, E.: Natural-looking strokes for drawing applications. Visual Comput. 22(6), 415–423 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Haevre, W.V., Laerhoven, T.V., Fiore, F.D., Reeth, F.V.: From dust till drawn: a real-time bidirectional pastel simulation. Visual Comput. 23(9), 925–934 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  21. Sobczyk, D., Boyer, V., Bourdin, J.J.: The virtual painting paintbox. In: Proc. Eurographics 2003 Short Presentations (2003)

  22. Onoue, K., Nishita, T.: An efficient method for displaying marks on soft grounds created by objects. J IIEEJ 32(4), 328–335 (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  23. Xu, S., Tan, H., Jiao, X., Lau, F.C.M., Pan, Y.: A generic pigment model for digital painting. Comput. Graph. Forum (EG 2007) 26(3), 609–618 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. The University of Tokyo, 277-8561, Tokyo, Japan

    Naoto Okaichi, Takashi Imagire & Tomoyuki Nishita

  2. Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, Singapore, 639798

    Henry Johan

  3. Namco Bandai Games Inc., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, USA

    Takashi Imagire

Authors
  1. Naoto Okaichi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Henry Johan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Takashi Imagire
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Tomoyuki Nishita
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Naoto Okaichi.

Electronic Supplementary Material

Movie 1 24MB

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Okaichi, N., Johan, H., Imagire, T. et al. A virtual painting knife. Visual Comput 24, 753–763 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-008-0257-5

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-008-0257-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation