Artistic Emulation - Filter Blending for Painterly Rendering

This paper looks at painterly rending using filter blending to create a novel range of artistic effects. We look into several techniques in the field of painterly rendering and combine these different rendering styles together in a user defined way to create a new filter. This creates a user defined painting style based on aspects of different painting styles and processes. The final application uses a triangular region for human-computer interaction where each corner represents an artistic filter and the middle of this triangle represents the original image. A point within the triangle is chosen to determine the filters that are used for blending and their contributing strengths. Artistic effects are based on three base filters that can be tailored by the user to suit the specific subject matter of the image.