Interactive creation of Chinese calligraphy with the application in calligraphy education

Authors:
Xianjun Zhang;Qi Zhao;Huanzhen Xue;Jun Dong
Affiliations:
Software Eng. Inst., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China and International Education College, Shanghai Univ. of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China and The Key Lab. of Complex Systems and ...;Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China;Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China;Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China
Venue:
Transactions on edutainment V
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Given a few tablet images of Chinese calligraphy, it is difficult to automatically create new Chinese calligraphy with better effects while keeping similar style. A semiautomatic creation scheme of Chinese calligraphy and its application in calligraphy education are proposed. First of all, the preprocessing, contour tracing and skeleton extraction are performed respectively on the images of original Chinese calligraphy characters. After that, strokes are extracted interactively. Then a statistical model is used to make stroke reforming. All strokes are stored separately in the stroke library. Finally, new Chinese calligraphy characters are created based on the structure of skeletons and right selection of reformed strokes from the stroke library. The experimental results show the created Chinese calligraphy characters look similar to the samples in the structure, however, with different effects.