Ink-and-wash painting based on the image of pine tree using mean curvature flow
IkSuk Yang, YoungJung Yu, DoHoon Lee · 2012
Ink-and-wash landscape painting in oriental has distinctive features to depict landscape comparing to the western painting. The pine tree is a main theme in oriental painting and its oriental style rendering remains unsolved problem to simplify the complex structure of its leaf based on image. In this paper, we propose a novel rendering method for ink-and-wash painting based on the image of pine tree using mean curvature flow (MCF). MCF is used to simplify the image for the segmentation of rendering components, and obtain primitive parameters to create strokes in pine needles. We provide primitive parameters to create a basic stroke and advanced parameters to describe more natural strokes. Using the combination of these parameters, the components of pine tree, which consist of the pine needles, trunk and branches and the shading of pine needles, are drawn. The system generates natural strokes for pine tree's leaves based on image and we show several results of simulated ink-and-wash paintings.