Chinese calligraphy system in CADAL

In this paper, a novel Chinese calligraphy system is presented and implemented. It is designed as a new version of the calligraphy system in CADAL, and will be online in several months instead of the current version developed some years ago. In this system, users can browse and retrieve the calligraphy books, calligraphy works and calligraphy characters, user can generate a calligraphy tablet, a user can write one or more characters with common-used input devices and render them with the strokes of a specific calligrapher and a user can view the writing process of some calligraphy characters. Many latest technologies are integrated in the proposed system. The key technologies are shape based calligraphy character retrieval, style-consistent calligraphy character synthesis and calligraphy tablet generation, calligraphy character rendering, and calligraphy character writing process simulation. The system is well designed and all the subsystems work well in our experiments.