The Synthesis of
Trees in Chinese Landscape Painting using Silhouette and Texture Strokes
Der-Lor Way, Yu-Ru Lin
,
Zen-Chung Shih
ABSTRACT
Practiced for more than three thousand years, Chinese painting
emphasizes "implicit
meaning", and involves painters’ using a minimal number of brush strokes
to express their deepest feelings.
Landscapes are one of the most important themes in Chinese painting. Trees are
the essential painting objects. This paper presents a set of novel methods to
automatically draw trees in Chinese ink painting from 3D polygonal models.
Outline rendering and texture generation uses the information of the
silhouette, shade and orientation of three-dimensional model’s surface to draw
a particular tree. Four reference maps are established to analyze the
information for the bark texture. These methods can draw various styles of bark texture by defining the texture
patterns. Finally, this paper demonstrates some results obtained with our
method.