Animating Water in Chinese Painting
Jinhui Yu, Yin Xiao-qin, Peng Qun-sheng · 2005
In this paper we present a method to animate water in Chinese painting. Our approach first detects positions of water forms in the hand drawn Chinese painting and synthesizes those forms using a parametric signal processing technique. Next, we render water forms using an image based rendering technique to produce water forms with the look of Chinese painting. Finally, water forms are animated in hand drawn environments thus we bring water forms in Chinese painting to life. Examples given in the paper demonstrate the capability of our method to capture the statistic properties associated with the sample data and to produce a variety of water forms for non-photorealistic animation.