Abstract
AbstractVisual aesthetics of Chinese characters is influenced by many factors, e.g., the rate of height and width of boundary rectangle (RHW), the rate of pixel counts of glyphs and pixel counts of the convex hull (RGC), the rate of pixel count of the convex hull and the boundary rectangle (RCB), the center of gravity position, the vertical symmetry axis position, the component gap, the thickness of strokes, the gap of strokes, and the background. Here, we studied the effect of RHW, RGC, and RCB on visual aesthetics of Chinese Kai-style characters. We selected 2100 characters from Chinese Calligraphy Dictionary Kai Volume. 10 naïve subjects in calligraphy and 8 non-naive subjects were asked to score and rank the Chinese characters in visual aesthetics. Results showed that (1) two different presentation, white characters on a black background and black characters on a white background, had significantly different effect on visual aesthetics of Chinese characters; (2) the aesthetic score tended to increase with the increase of RHW and RGC and to decrease with the increase of RCB. Results suggested that the visual aesthetics of Chinese Kai-style characters tended to be “thin” and “plump”.KeywordsVisual aestheticsChinese Kai-style charactersThinPlump
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