PETICA: An Interactive Painting System with 3D Geometrical Brushes

Abstract

Painters may use various materials such as chopsticks and clothes as painting materials as well as ordinal and general materials such as pencils and brushes. There have been developing many painting systems in order to extend the possibilities of artistic expressions. However, these conventional painting systems could not design and create neither 3D forms nor attributes of painting brushes. Thus, brushes designed by these systems could not reflect painter's delicate and detailed intentions or operations in painting. We have developed an interactive painting system, PETICA, that enables to design and create 3D forms and attributes of painting brushes freely. Painters can draw and paint highly expressive pictures by using PECITA.