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Painterly Renderings creates an image that appears hand-painted, based only on a user-supplied photograph or digital image.
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Description: Painterly Renderings presents a new method for creating an image with a hand-painted appearance from a photograph, and a new approach to designing styles of illustration. This computer program can transform ordinary photographs, transparencies, 35mm negatives and digital files, whether stored on photo websites or captured with a digital camera, into masterpiece quality works of art with the look of painted brushstrokes, as if painted by an artist. Features and Benefits: Painterly Renderings creates an image that appears hand-painted, based only on a user-supplied photograph or digital image. The user may select from a variety of painting styles—Impressionist, Expressionist, and Pointillist. This unique system produces superior results by mimicking painting techniques used by human painters. User - specified parameters: Rather than being forced to employ a single style of painting for every picture, the graphic artist is allowed to vary the computer’s “artistic approach” by manipulating style parameters that control stroke curvature or how closely the painting should approximate the original. These parameters follow four rules: Intuitiveness - Style parameter corresponds to a visual quality of the painting. Consistency - Styles produce the same “visual character” for difference images. Robustness - Each parameter produces reasonable results over a predetermined range, without “breaking” for some values. Independence - Style parameters are independent of each other: changing line width does not change saturation. Real-time Video Processing - Painterly Renderings works as images are captured from a video camera. It refreshes at a fast rate, giving an illusion of a moving painting. Applications: Painterly Renderings can be applied to many different industries. For example, in the photo processing industry, this technology can be used to render personal photographs into painting-like images. In the media industry, the real-time rendering feature of Painterly Renderings generates special effects for videos.