“A study of printing order estimation of two-color wood-block printing” by Onigahara, Mizuno and Okada
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- A study of printing order estimation of two-color wood-block printing
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Woodblock printing is the traditional printing technique in Japan as known as Ukiyo-e and its prints are produced by plural woodblocks corresponding to color pigments. We have studied a digital archive project of Ukiyo-e by using intelligent coding of printing[Okada 2001]. It means that an Ukiyo-e print is not archived as only an image, but archived as the printing process of the print. The process of woodblock printing consists of three phases, draft drawing, engraving of woodblocks, and printing by a baren. Geometry of woodblocks is important information of the shape and color of the final prints as well as the printing order for plural woodblocks. We assume the main issue of the reverse engineering of woodblock printing is estimating woodblock geometry and printing order from a print. This paper describes an improved method for the former method by Terai et al. [Terai 2005].
References:
1. Okada, M. et.al. 2001. Digital ukiyo-e preserving project: Intelligent coding and constructing archives of printing blocks. VSMM2001.
2. Terai, T. et.al. 2005. Color decomposition for reproducing multi-color woodblock prints. ACM-SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters.
