Eastern Ink Painting on a Computer

Roland Piquepaille writes "Traditional Oriental ink painting is more easily done with real brushes than with a computer program because you need to model how the ink is flowing into an absorbent surface such as paper. In this brief article, Technology Research News writes that "researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed a brush-and-ink-style paint program, dubbed MoXi, that uses a model of pigment particles in water flowing into paper." These virtual Chinese brushes simulate in real time the ink dispersion and could be available on your PC within two years. This longer overview contains more details and references. It also includes pictures generated with MoXi. Finally, it looks at a potential trademark problem over the name MoXi."

Comments

Photo

[mboverload]

What the hell? I can paint just fine with photoshop, thank you.

finally

[John Pfeiffer]

I've been looking for something to more completely emulate the look of Japanese sumi painting, I bet this'd do a damn fine job. :D

obligatory Soviet Russia

[Krankheit]

In Soviet Russia the computer prints with paint brushes and artists print laser printers, wait a second...

Re:Input Devices

[ratnerstar]

Perhaps this is what you're looking for.

What would you build out of virtual clay?

[refactored]

A firewall of course!

Re:Roland Piquepaille Watch Alert

[jamesh]

You are making the assumption that slashdotters RTFA, which is false.

And anyway, stop complaining, at least it's not a dupe. (or is it? i haven't checked :)