A rough set approach to extract painting composition rules

Abstract

Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is a technique used in the field of computer graphics. Here, we restrict our attention to the subset of NPR developed to synthesize drawing and painting techniques. Specifically, we focus on the style of Cubist art, such as the works of Picasso. First, we examine the actual works of Picasso in order to understand and improve the qualities of Cubist style rendering. As a result, the painting composition rules are expected to be extracted from the analysis of Picasso's works. In the present paper, we propose a Cubist style rendering based on the analysis of painting compositions. The present paper describes the proposed method by which to construct a painting composition database and illustrates the rules extracted from the database. We use rough set theory to extract the rules, and using these rules; we render and illustrate a sample image in Cubist style.