Graph-based 3D Visualization of Color Content in Paintings

Colantoni, Philippe; Thomas, Jean-Baptiste; Pillay, Ruven

Graph-based 3D Visualization of Color Content in Paintings

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Date

2010

Authors

Colantoni, Philippe
Thomas, Jean-Baptiste
Pillay, Ruven

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Visualization of the color content of a painting can help to better understand the style, compositional structure and material content. There are several ways to visualize colorimetric data from a color image. One option is to use 3D Virtual Reality to view colorimetric data in an arbitrary orientation in a standard color space. In this paper we propose a new colorimetric visualization method. The originality of this method is that we include also the spatial organization of the colors within the painting. We can, thus, visualize information on color gradients that may appear in the painting using simple 3D primitives. We demonstrate the efficiency of our method on a colorimetrically calibrated image of an Italian Renaissance painting.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/PE/VAST/VAST10S/025-030
,
booktitle = {VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage - Short and Project Papers
},
editor = {Alessandro Artusi and Morwena Joly and Genevieve Lucet and Denis Pitzalis and Alejandro Ribes
},
title = {{Graph-based 3D Visualization of Color Content in Paintings
}},
author = {Colantoni, Philippe and 
Thomas, Jean-Baptiste and 
Pillay, Ruven
},
year = {2010
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-76-0
},
DOI = {/10.2312/PE/VAST/VAST10S/025-030
}
}