Overview
- A computational approach to the creation of e-art, which makes use of old and new techniques in computer science
- Focuses on but not limited to Oriental digital fine arts
- Integrated solutions spanning and fusing machine intelligence, computer graphics and human computer interaction techniques
- A novel effort bridging highly mathematical numerical techniques and abstract art creations
- Many research results as proofs of the viability of the proposed approaches
Part of the book series: Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China (ATSTC)
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About this book
"A Computational Approach to Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy" is a technical book on computer science and its applications in the arts. It focuses on Oriental digital arts, in particular Chinese arts and painting, offering a multi-disciplinary treatment from the angles of computer graphics, interactive techniques, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. The book also discusses the unique difficulties and challenges of using the computer to produce Oriental arts, including research results by the authors and their lessons and engineering experiences behind these efforts.
Songhua Xu is a computer scientist of Zhejiang University and Yale University, as well as an honorary researcher of the University of Hong Kong. Francis C.M. Lau is Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he leads the Systems Research Group in the Department of Computer Science. Yunhe Pan is Professor of Computer Science at Zhejiang University as well as Deputy President of Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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Computer Science in Painting: A Brief Survey
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Interactive Digital Painting and Calligraphy
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Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy
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Animating Chinese Paintings
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Perspectives
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book is quite innovative in its perspective of how the brushstrokes necessary for Chinese calligraphy can be traced in paintings. … the authors use the enthusiasm for the 2008 Beijing Olympics to encourage spectators to study Chinese arts, too. … The target audience for this book spans the gamut. … The authors hope that both the art and science communities will be interested in the book’s topics … . This is one of the important texts in the current literature on these topics." (Minette Carl, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Computational Approach to Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Authors: Songhua Xu, Francis C. M. Lau, Yunhe Pan
Series Title: Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88148-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-88147-6Published: 29 January 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-88148-3Published: 12 May 2009
Series ISSN: 1995-6819
Series E-ISSN: 1995-6827
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 363
Additional Information: Jointly published with Zhejiang University Press
Topics: Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Computer Graphics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Arts