calligraphy in plaster molding has long been a unique platform for professional designers and decorative calligraphers due to the ease of molding the plaster and the longevity of the work. since the origin of the kufi alphabet used in plaster inscriptions is simplekufi, it is generallybelieved that the common letters must be drawn alike. however, as exemplified in the phrase under study, the mo...

Confucianism is a Confucian shrine that combines multiple values of culture, religion and art. The study Confucianism’s Konglin concerns many important issues traditional Chinese culture reinterpretation the cultural value stone inscriptions in today choice times for dissemination an path world to understand ethics. Along with rise fever, has attracted widespread academic attention, but most ex...

Chinese brush calligraphy is a valuable civilization legacy and a high art of scholarship. It is still popular in Chinese banners, newspaper mastheads, university names, and celebration gifts. There are Web sites that try to help people enjoy and learn Chinese calligraphy. However, there lacks advanced services such as content-based retrieval or vivid writing process simulation for calligraphy ...

BACKGROUND Chinese calligraphy handwriting is the practice of traditional Chinese brush writing, researches found calligraphy had therapeutic effects on certain diseases, some authors argued that calligraphy might have relaxation effect. OBJECTIVES This study was to compare the effects of calligraphy handwriting with those of progressive muscle relaxation and imagery training in Chinese Nasop...

there is not adequate information available about traditional instruction system in the field of visual arts in the pre-modern period. instruction of calligraphy can be considered as traditional instruction of art in a way that its guidelines and instructional texts are remained almost intact. instruction of calligraphy is implemented in aprofessor-student procedure and is accompanied with vari...

Paper collections of historical calligraphy objects in Libraries and museums are scanned into document images to serve the academic society. However, these digitized collections are in image format, lacking the technology to search by image content. This paper proposes a search engine for searching calligraphy image content. First, 2503 page images are segmented into characters and components. ...

A style-consistent calligraphy tablet designing approach is proposed in this paper. The layout of the tablet is calculated firstly. The calligraphy characters are retrieved from the ones written by the specific calligrapher, while the style-consistency calligraphy character synthesis approach is applied to synthesize the non-existent ones. Finally, these characters are adjusted so that their st...

In this work, we aim to transform handwritten Chinese characters into calligraphy style characters on a stroke-by-stroke basis. We extracted strokes from a set of handwritten characters by identifying the primary orientation of each stroke. We then adopted autoencoder and self-organizing maps to cluster the extracted strokes into 100 different groups. Using the neural networks obtained, we clus...