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Simulating Chalk Art Style Painting

Wenhua Qian

School of Information Science & Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, P. R. China

School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, P. R. China

E-mail Address: qianqian8wenhua@163.com

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Dan Xu

School of Information Science & Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, P. R. China

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Zheng Guan

School of Information Science & Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, P. R. China

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Kun Yue

School of Information Science & Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, P. R. China

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Yuanyuan Pu

School of Information Science & Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, P. R. China

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001417590261Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Different kinds of illustrations and artistic imagery can be generated or simulated through the nonphotorealistic rendering (NPR) technique. However, designing and simulating new NPR artistic styles remains extremely challenging. Chalk art style is a very famous artistic work all over the world, and few algorithms have been put forward to illustrate this style. This paper presents a novel NPR technique which generates a chalk art drawing from a 2D photograph automatically. We aim at obtaining a set of lines surface with coarse appearance and generating stroke textures of the real chalk painting. Firstly, the edge of the source image is extracted by difference-of-Gaussian filter method. To simulate chalk painting’s lines, image diffusion and enhancement techniques are proposed to produce coarse and rough lines. Secondly, we developed an improved line integral convolution and dilation operation methods to produce the chalk stroke texture. Finally, the edge image, stroke texture image and color image will be mapped to another background image to generate the chalk art drawing. Experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of our method in producing the color chalk stylistic illustrations, and the methods can simulate the characters of the real chalk art painting. The proposed method of this paper will enlarge the research and application fields of NPR. Meanwhile, it provides a tool for the user to create chalk art paintings via computers even without painting skill.

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