The goal of our research is to enable artists to interact with the world of their imagination; to create art by moving, molding, and shaping virtual forms as if by their own bodies. We show a print that represents a scene painted into virtual reality and tell how the scene and the subsequent print were done. There will be some discussion of the meaning of the work, the intent of the artist and ...

The Ndebele tribe of Southern Africa is divided into four sub-tribes, of which two, the Manala and the Ndzundza, live presently mainly in the Pretoria and Mpumalanga area of South Africa. The Ndzundza is the only Ndebele group practicing the decorative art of painting and beadwork. The craft of producing striking, colorful and geometric artwork has become their most distinctive and world famous...

We propose an interactive technique using onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia are imitative words such as “Zig-zag” and “Tick-tock”. Some Asian languages, especially Japanese and Korean, have many onomatopoeia words, which are frequently used in ordinary conversation, as well as in the written language. Almost all onomatopoeic words represent the texture of materials, the state of things and emotions. W...

Paintings are usually paintings of things: a room in a palace, a princess, a dog. But what would it be to paint not those things, but the experience of seeing those things? Las Meninas is sufficiently sophisticated and masterfully executed to help us explore this question. Of course, there are many kinds of paintings: some abstract, some conceptual, some with more traditional subjects. Let us s...

We propose a method for identifying a painting in an image using eigenimages. We first pre-process the image to remove the background and then correct for skew and scaling. We then apply the method of eigenimages on de-meaned images. The algorithm correctly matched 97% of the images in a test database of 110 images, with an execution time of 3.6 s per image.

Mesh painting is a well accepted and very intuitive metaphor for adding high-resolution detail to a given 3D model: Using a brush interface, the designer simply paints fine-scale texture or geometry information onto the surface. In this paper we propose a fully GPU-accelerated mesh painting technique, which provides real-time feedback even for highly complex meshes. Our method can handle arbitr...

ThreadTone is an NPR representation of an input image by halftoning using threads on a circle. Current approaches to create ThreadTone paintings greedily draw the chords on the circle. We introduce the concept of chord space, and design a new algorithm to improve the quality of the thread painting. We use an optimization process that estimates the fitness of every chord in the chord space, and ...