Watercolor Woodblock Printing with Image Analysis

dc.contributor.authorPanotopoulou, Athinaen_US
dc.contributor.authorParis, Sylvainen_US
dc.contributor.authorWhiting, Emilyen_US
dc.contributor.editorGutierrez, Diego and Sheffer, Allaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-14T18:24:38Z
dc.date.available2018-04-14T18:24:38Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractWatercolor paintings have a unique look that mixes subtle color gradients and sophisticated diffusion patterns. This makes them immediately recognizable and gives them a unique appeal. Creating such paintings requires advanced skills that are beyond the reach of most people. Even for trained artists, producing several copies of a painting is a tedious task. One can resort to scanning an existing painting and printing replicas, but these are all identical and have lost an essential characteristic of a painting, its uniqueness. We address these two issues with a technique to fabricate woodblocks that we later use to create watercolor prints. The woodblocks can be reused to produce multiple copies but each print is unique due to the physical process that we introduce. We also design an image processing pipeline that helps users to create the woodblocks and describe a protocol that produces prints by carefully controlling the interplay between the paper, ink pigments, and water so that the final piece depicts the desired scene while exhibiting the distinctive features of watercolor. Our technique enables anyone with the resources to produce watercolor prints.en_US
dc.description.number2
dc.description.sectionheadersComputational Fabrication
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13360
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages275-286
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13360
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13360
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectHuman
dc.subjectcentered computing
dc.subjectInterface design prototyping
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectImage processing
dc.subjectImage representations
dc.subjectApplied computing
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.titleWatercolor Woodblock Printing with Image Analysisen_US
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