Publisher's Synopsis
A Computational Approach to Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphyis a technical book oncomputer graphics andits applications in the arts. It focuses on Oriental digital arts, in particular Chinese arts and painting, offeringa multi-disciplinary treatment from the angles of computer graphics, interactive techniques, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. The book also discusses the unique difficulties and challenges of using the computer to produce Oriental arts, including research results by the authors and their lessons and engineering experiences behind these efforts.
Songhua Xu is a computer science researcher for Yale University and Zhejiang University, as well as an honorary researcher for the University of Hong Kong. He received scholarships from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Rockwell, SigmaTel, Nokia, GE Fund, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Chariman Xiaoping Deng Memorial Fund, as well as a few Yale University fellowships and an excellent young researcher startup fund from Zhejiang University.
