1. Computer Science and Fine Arts.- 2 Computer Science in Painting.- 3 Computer Science in Calligraphy.- 4 Computer Science in More Forms of Fine Arts.- 5 Architecture of Computational Treatments of Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy.- 6 Basic Algorithmic Framework of a Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System.- 7 Design Efforts Improving Performance of the Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System.- 8 Pigment Component of An Advanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System.- 9 Dynamics Component of An Advanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System.- 10 Rendering Component of An Advanced Virtual Hairy Paintbrush System.- 11 Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy.- 12 Automatic Generation of Paintings from Photographs.- 13 Animation Techniques for Paintings and Calligraphy.- 14 Animating Chinese Paintings through Stroke-Based Decomposition.- 15 Final Fantasies for Digital Painting and Calligraphy.- 16 Future Work and Challenges.-
From the reviews:
"This book is quite innovative in its perspective of how the brushstrokes necessary for Chinese calligraphy can be traced in paintings. ... the authors use the enthusiasm for the 2008 Beijing Olympics to encourage spectators to study Chinese arts, too. ... The target audience for this book spans the gamut. ... The authors hope that both the art and science communities will be interested in the book’s topics ... . This is one of the important texts in the current literature on these topics." (Minette Carl, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2009)