Digitally reproducing the artistic style of XVI century artist Antonio Campelo in Alegoria Prudencia

Abstract

In this work, the artistic style of the sixteenth century Portuguese artist Ant\'onio Campelo in Alegoria \`a Prud\^encia is analyzed in order to create a computational tool that allows one to transform any 3D digital sculpture model into an image that resembles the modeled style. From this analysis the problem is divided into two parts: detection and drawing of contour lines and the shading of the scene. Several techniques from Non Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) and from Photorealistic Rendering that can resolve the problem are presented and, based on this study, a possible solution is presented. Each modeled rendering component is then analyzed using image based methods against the proposed artistic style and parameters are adjusted for a closer match. In the final stage a group of people was asked to answer a questionnaire where the similarity between the renderings of different objects and the original style was classified according to their personal opinion. One of our findings is that although the source 3D objects cannot be readily found for a direct comparison, nor can the paper medium with centuries old damage be the same, the comparison of sub -parts of both images of the same topology was still possible validating our method and discarding other styles from the comparison.