Abstract
In this paper, we present a sytem for generation of brush characters. The system converts kanji characters which user draws with a mouse or a pen into brush-style kanji characters. The user can operate the system with ease, and can generate natural-looking characters. The brush characters are output on the display of a workstation. kanji characters are fundamentally composed of strokes. The database of the system has 46 strokes. The user can freely create kanji characters by a combination of several strokes. In short, the system converts one-stroke-at-a-time input to brush strokes. To recognize an input stroke, the system uses a neural network. The outout brush stroke reflects individual information of the user (the position of an input stroke, the size, the angle, and the writing speed). The writing speed is evaluated by fuzzy interpretation and expressed as scratchiness and bluriness in output brush characters.
