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The design of user friendly and expressive virtual brush systems for interactive digital painting and calligraphy has attracted a lot of attention and effort in both computer graphics and human-computer interaction circles for a long time. Providing a digital environment for paper-less artwork creation is not only challenging in terms of algorithmic design, but also promising for its potential market values. This paper proposes a novel algorithmic framework for interactive digital painting and calligraphy based a novel virtual hairy brush model. The algorithms in the kernel of our simulation framework are built upon solid modeling techniques. Implementing the algorithms, we have developed a virtual hairy brush prototype system with which end users can interactively produce high-quality digital paintings and calligraphic artwork. (The latest progress of our virtual brush project is reported at the website “http://www.cs.hku.hk/~songhua/e-brush/”.)
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Xu, S., Lau, C.M.F., Xu, C. et al. Virtual hairy brush for digital painting and calligraphy. Sci China Ser F 48, 285–303 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1360/ 03yf0389
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