A Computational Approach to Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

Part I. Introduction

1. Computer Science and Fine Arts

Part II. Computer Science in Painting: A Brief Survey

2. Computer Science in Paintings or Drawings

Part III. Interactive Digital Painting and Calligraphy

3. Introduction to Interactive Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

4. Basic Algorithmic Framework of a Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System

5. Performance Enhanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System

6. Pigment Component of an Advanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System

7. Rendering Component of an Advanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System

Part IV. Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy

8. Principles of Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy

9. Two Perspectives on Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy

10. A Preliminary Attempt at Evaluating the Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy

Part V. Animating Chinese Paintings

11. Animating Chinese Paintings through Stroke-based Decomposition

Part VI. Perspectives

12. Final Fantasies for Digital Painting and Calligraphy

Nyckelord: Computer Science, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Computer Graphics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Arts