Illustrating a Computer Generated Narrative

This work describes a computer model that generates visual narratives. It is part of a research project on narrative generation. A visual narrative is defined as a sequence of pictorial-scenes; each scene contains characters, locations and symbols representing dramatic tensions. A computer generated plot is transformed into a visual narrative by converting each textual action into a pictorial scene. We present details of the composition process and explain how the graphic elements employed to produce a coherent narration are generated. We describe the questionnaire that we employed to evaluate the system, discuss the results and outline future developments.