Authors:
D. Almeida
;
S. Nunes
;
J. Carvalho
;
V. Brito
;
J. Rodrigues
and
J. M. H. du Buf
Affiliation:
Vision Laboratory – Inst. for Systems and Robotics (ISR), University of Algarve, Portugal
Keyword(s):
NPR, painterly rendering, interface, edutainment, fine arts, visual perception.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Advanced User Interfaces
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Interactive Environments
;
Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Painting-Like Rendering, Drawing
;
Rendering
Abstract:
A new scheme for painterly rendering (NPR) has been developed. This scheme is based on visual perception, in particular the multi-scale line/edge representation in the visual cortex. The Amateur Painter (TAP) is the user interface on top of the rendering scheme. It allows to (semi)automatically create paintings from photographs, with different types of brush strokes and colour manipulations. In contrast to similar painting tools, TAP has a set of menus that reflects the procedure followed by a normal painter. In addition, menus and options have been designed such that they are very intuitive, avoiding a jungle of sub-menus with options from image processing that children and laymen do not understand. Our goal is to create a tool that is extremely easy to use, with the possibility that the user becomes interested in painting techniques, styles, and fine arts in general.