Abstract
“Shodo,” which is Japanese calligraphy, is a form of artistic writing, used for writing Japanese language. It is the oriental beauty art similar to water color and oil painting. This study aims to propose and develop a method to design Japanese calligraphic fonts which contain artistic representations similar to actual “shodo” art. We especially focus on “kasure (in Japanese),” which is one of the most characteristic visual effects of “shodo” and adopt an approach using example based texture-synthesis in the field of non-photorealistic rendering to achieve high quality artistic fonts. Our proposed method doesn't require any technical expertise and high level operation skill to design “kasure” of Japanese calligraphic fonts.
