CN102945572B - Generate landmark buildings or sculptures based on Chinese characters in graphic characters - Google Patents

Abstract

With the assistance of a computer, a group of graphics and texts can be transformed into three-dimensional 3D objects of different combinations, wherein the combined 3D object can be used as a design scheme of a landmark. The user can easily modify these three-dimensional objects to achieve the purpose of special design with actual functions, programming and budget. By inputting Chinese characters into the 3D objects generated by the computer, designers can concentrate on screening some potential three-dimensional objects instead of starting from draft steps one by one in the traditional design mode.

Description

Generate landmark buildings or sculptures based on Chinese characters in graphic characters

technical field

This application is about computer-aided design, more specifically, the performance of 3D graphics and text.

Background technique

Graphic characters such as traditional Chinese characters have been widely used in Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. Different from English letters, graphic characters are two-dimensional 2D images formed by a series of strokes. The Chinese characters have 3,500 commonly used characters and 80,000 known characters. The diversity and complexity of Chinese characters can be used to design drawing components in software. Generally speaking, the architectural design software currently on the market is obviously insufficient in drawing functions. Chinese characters generally refer to flat fonts. Calligraphy was very popular in the past, and it is also regarded as an expression of art in modern times. Figure 1a shows an example of an extruded typeface, which is a three-dimensional glyph commonly used in commercial or advertising signage design. Shadow 10 and some characters are aligned one after the other, making people look three-dimensional. Typically extruded fonts are like flat text plus its thickness. Chinese characters are occasionally used in the plan and elevation of buildings in Eastern and Western cultures. As shown in Figure 1b, the Kaohsiung 85 Building is designed with the character Gao. The floor plan of the church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is like the Chinese word for "古" as shown in Figure 2a of 2. The above two buildings are designed in a way that is like extruded text, with a flat font adding its thickness. The current software either lacks the design of the drawing function or has limited 3D functions. Traditional computer drawing software may have a good 3D performance function, but the basic and typical drawing tools such as straight lines, arcs, rings, rectangles, polygons, etc., users are often guided to simple 3D graphic design. To design an interesting and complex figure, users usually rely on sketching and modeling, which is a rather time-consuming process. Because of this, there is still room for further improvement in the design process. With the computer-aided environment, a large number of design structures and graphic texts can be systematically discussed and displayed on the computer screen.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to generate 3D graphics on multiple layers according to graphic characters, which is different from traditional single-layer 3D fonts. The purpose of the present invention is to divide the Chinese characters according to the strokes, and stack the strokes in multiple layers of the cube. The purpose of the present invention is to use computer aids to overlap 3D characters in a mathematical way, and the overlapped 3D characters can be modified manually or by computer programs. The purpose of the present invention is to screen hundreds or thousands of 3D overlapping texts as landmarks. The purpose of the present invention is to generate 3D sculptures or buildings with 3D text.

Specific applications of the present invention include the use of computer-aided methods. 3D objects with different combinations can be generated from a set of graphics and text with computer assistance. Some of these 3D objects can be used as a source of landmark design proposals. Users only need to modify these objects with "function" and "programming" to further achieve their specific design goals. The designer screens a set of graphic text and operating rules to generate 3D objects with the aid of a computer. This system allows the designer to focus on selecting potential objects as a preliminary design step, rather than starting from a sketch design in the traditional design method. Another specific application is that the existing Chinese characters in two-dimensional space can be converted into characters in three-dimensional space according to the order of strokes. Each stroke can be placed on top of a layer of the cube. If you look at the 3D Chinese characters from a specific angle, the characters can still be distinguished. Each 3D Chinese character can be used as a building block. It can use computer software to overlap with other 3D Chinese characters to produce an array of different 3D objects. Users can filter and analyze these generated 3D objects for different applications. Another specific application is the protection program of computer screen, the computer screen protection program can be produced by the graphic text of input, it can show on the computer screen that 2D text becomes 3D figure or changes back to 2D text by 3D figure. According to the selected operation rules, the input characters can be stacked, evolved, and overlapped to further generate multiple 3D graphics.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Chinese characters will be used as an example. Figure 1a shows a Chinese character that has been artistically represented in the past. It actually adds thickness in another space according to the traditional 2D font. Figure 1b shows a 2D clerical font where each stroke is on the same layer. Figure 2a and Figure 2b show the same font within a square. The square is the box for the typeface, which is intentionally shown for illustrative purposes. Figure 2b further shows the strokes of fonts not in the normal writing order. Each Chinese character can be transformed into a 3D glyph in different graphics, and it can then be used as a 3D building block, according to certain operating rules, as an advanced design, as shown in Fig. 3-12, which will be further explained in the following article. aConstruct a character Everyone in the cube knows that graphic characters are composed of sequential strokes. Figure 3 shows that the character in Figure 2a can be decomposed into each stroke. Strokes 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 represent 1~ 5 Each stroke, each stroke can be regarded as a 3D basic structure, which can be placed into a cube or other layers that can zoom in and out of 3D graphics from top to bottom or bottom to top according to different stroke sequences. The length, width and height of each stroke in Fig. 4 are represented separately by three-dimensional coordinates XYZ, and the height or thickness of each stroke can be determined by dividing the maximum number of connected strokes in a character by one side of a cube. For example, strokes 9, 10 and 11 form the most connected part of Chinese character 3 in figure 4, and the thickness of the stroke is equal to one-third of the side of the cube. Of course, the present invention is not limited to such as determining the thickness of the stroke, for example, there are certain artistic reasons, The thickness of a stroke and the digit value stored in the database as the font can be specified in advance. Likewise, there are many different ways to place the order of strokes within the cube. In the example shown in FIG. 4, each stroke is placed on top of another stroke and connected, but the placement rules can be set to allow different stroke placement methods. Floating strokes with spacing can be moved to a different connection point, rotate according to the preset direction, zoom in and out to a size different from the preset value, etc. It is worth asking, floating strokes are allowed in design, it Maybe it needs to be supported by the strokes next door. During the implementation phase, small supporting elements such as steel columns, or transparent fiberglass can be used for support. b Two characters overlap in the cube Figure 5 shows an overlapping 3D glyph, the strokes of Chinese character 3 and Chinese character 4 overlap together, this example shows how two characters merge together to form a new 3D structure, Figure 4 Chinese character 4 is made up of two unconnected radicals, and its strokes are respectively marked 7-9 and 10-11. The radicals of the word are as shown in Figure 5, which can be processed separately. The strokes of Chinese character 4 are 7- 9 can be placed on the top of Chinese character 3, and strokes 10-11 of Chinese character 4 can be placed on the first two layers of Chinese character 3, or below it, because the xy coordinates of the two-dimensional space graphics do not change, Chinese characters 3 and 4 As can be seen from the above, they are the same as two characters overlapped together. For practical reasons and parental rules, the radicals of this number can be regarded as advanced building blocks for placing several radicals (Chinese characters) in a cube. Of course, the present invention is not limited to the method described above to illustrate how the radicals of several Chinese characters are arranged in multiple layers. Obviously there are many different, but very good placement methods, but they all belong to the essence of the present invention. , For example, for some artistic reasons, before placing radicals, radicals can be operated according to previous experience, such as rotation, movement, zoom in and out, and evolution, and various ideal shapes of radicals can be stored in the database. It can be taken out and used when computer is assisted. c According to the operation of radicals, each radical of Chinese characters can be further divided into several radicals. Each radical represents a short sequence of strokes, or partial strokes. They are called radicals because they will be used in other Chinese characters, such as the composite character 5 shown in figure 6, is composed of radicals 40 and 50, each radical is actually a Chinese character, and the whole radical 40 can be further distinguished from other radicals 30, 31 and 32. Because each radical is in partial stroke order, it can simplify the design process by applying the same operation rules on the same radical, such as the stroke order 22-23, 24-26, 27-29 of the 3D structure in Figure 6 Composing different radicals can be regarded as different schemes. The order of radicals rather than the order of strokes is used to represent the selected characters and to build some 3D structures with limited radicals. Important things have their benefits. This design process The 3D graphics produced by several radicals (characters) are similar to the 3D graphics produced by a single character, the difference is that the former is composed of radicals and the latter is in stroke order.

d. Designing scaled-down indicator cubes In a computer-aided environment, it is appropriate to indicate the orientation of a cube in order to apply operating rules for manipulating several cubes. Each cube can accommodate one or more Chinese characters. Figure 7a-7b is used as an example of reducing the design of indicating cubes. There are 6 designated faces in this reducing cube. The cube marks faces 1~6, and the other uses A~F to represent individual 6 faces (as shown in Figure 7b). When zooming out instructs the cube to rotate 90 degrees, face 5 is then rotated to the top as shown in Figure 7C. The results shown in Fig. 7a were generated for the set of Chinese characters in Fig. 4 . Before overlapping, the Chinese characters shown in Fig. 4 are rotated 90 degrees and overlapped with another character with the zoom-out indicator diagram. The scaled-down diagram becomes useful for design tools, from duplicating a cube structure to an identical one, or mirror image symmetry and connecting several cubes, or stacking them together to create another high-level design. Figure 8 shows the replication of a set of 3D structures exactly as in Figure 7a. This design is further developed to another stage of design as shown in Figure 10. The replicated structure is transformed into a mirror symmetrical figure and then connected with another group at points a and b. The resulting structure in Figure 12 may seem artistically complex, but it is derived from the very simple word in Figure 4. This is obvious, as the three-dimensional graphics produced by different construction combinations or different placement rules will be very different. Therefore, making a metaphor for a group of graphic characters is like a gene in a repository, and the duplication and merger are similar to the biological evolution process. In order for a suitable species to evolve, the designer takes the role of the active and selector, simply adjusting the computer-aided design rules and the way the computer interacts to determine his or her choice from the majority of 3D graphics produced. This design process is suitable for general professionals such as architects or sculptors who can use this design process to find novel and artistic ideas. On the other hand is a fully automated design environment that can be built for the general public. The process of their participation is simply to select a set of preset rules from the database and select the complexity value that can be generated by the specified word. Application to this simple environment can lead to but not limited to the following aspects, such as language education, template creation, computer screen saver. The user inputs several words and complex values with overlapping fonts, and then 3D structures of different combinations are displayed on the computer screen, and the process graphics may or may not be displayed. The purpose of the present invention is to generate 3D graphics on multiple layers according to graphic characters, which is different from traditional single-layer 3D fonts. The purpose of the present invention is to divide the Chinese characters according to the strokes, and stack the strokes in multiple layers of the cube. The purpose of the present invention is to use computer aids to overlap 3D characters in a mathematical way, and the overlapped 3D characters can be modified manually or by computer programs. The purpose of the present invention is to screen hundreds or thousands of 3D overlapping texts as landmarks. The purpose of the present invention is to generate 3D sculptures or buildings with 3D text.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1a is extruded 2D text, which is an existing artwork. Figure 1b Artistic 2D fonts already exist. Figure 2a shows Chinese characters in a square. Figure 2b shows that Chinese characters can be disassembled by stroke. Fig. 3 shows a Chinese character disassembled according to strokes and arranged sequentially as shown in Fig. 2b. Figure 4 shows two 3D Chinese characters inside a perspective cube. Figure 5 shows two Chinese characters overlapped as shown in Figure 4. Figure 6 shows a relatively complex multi-stroke 3D Chinese character, where Chinese characters can be represented by radicals. Figure 7a shows two overlapping Chinese characters with one turned 90 degrees and the other overlapping. Fig. 7b shows that two scaled-down indicating cubes (key cubes) are marked with planes 1-6 and plane AF respectively. Fig. 7c shows that a reduced indicating cube represents the fusion of two reduced cubes, one of the surfaces 5 and one of the surfaces A are relatively overlapped together. Figure 8 shows the functions of cloning and translation as shown in Figure 7a, to copy a set of overlapping 3D text. Fig. 9 shows a merged group of overlapping 3D fonts as shown in Fig. 7a, the overlapped 3D characters are mirror-reflecting and symmetrical to the other group. Figure 10 shows copying and moving overlapping 3D graphics as shown in Figure 9. Figure 11 shows a set of overlapping graphics as shown in Figure 10 for mirror-flipping. Figure 12 shows the morphing of one group of overlapping 3D graphics connected to another group of 3D graphics at specific points. Fig. 13 shows a block flow diagram (block diagram) for specifically generating 3D graphics according to the present invention [Description of main component symbols]

1-"high" character 2-"ancient" character 3-three-dimensional "ancient" character 4-three-dimensional "outside" character 7 to 29-strokes 30 to 35- radical 40-"fish" character or radical 50-"Beijing "Character or radical 100- user 101- language translation 102- two-dimensional font input 103- rule engine 104- database 105- 3D graphics or 3D font output 106- screening 3D graphics 107- landmark design output a- Junction b-junction c-box of font

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Fig. 13 is a flow chart of the specific generation of 3D graphics in the present invention. The user 100 can input one or several graphic characters. Input methods include keyboard, mouse or voice-activated input. For example, the basic input of Chinese characters includes "Hanyu Pinyin", "radicals" and "two mixed types", or adopt existing handwriting recognition tools. Other users can rely on the language translator 101 to input the font 102 if they are not familiar with the existing methods. In a batch work environment, users may not need to input all desired fonts themselves, but can choose a set of fonts from a dictionary, or enter a set of pre-categorized characters. The selected characters undergo radical character identification and stroke analysis in the rule engine 103, and then the rule engine 103 retrieves the corresponding 3D radicals and or strokes from the database, while the database 104 has stored the preprocessed radicals and strokes, Correspondingly, 3D graphics or 3D fonts 105 are generated within a cube. It can be further merged (or merged, merged, or overlapped) according to selected operating rules or preset values. The system will generate multiple optional 3D structures from which the user can choose the best one. Screening 106 is performed interactively and displayed in different ways such as computer screen or printer. Operational rules such as copying, flipping, rotating, translating, scaling, overlapping and evolving, can be pre-set, or according to the user's choice. It is worth noting that it is a result of design and may not be applicable for specific applications. For example, a landmark sculpture 107 generated from the system may need to be further revised through the traditional "function", "structure", "programming" and "budget" tests to conform to the building requirements. The illustrations and descriptions used in the above disclosed examples of specific implementations are not intended to be very detailed descriptions or limited to presenting very precise graphics. Of course there are also many possibilities for modification or different methods that can be produced from the above. The selection and description of this specific implementation example is to explain the disclosed principles and their practical applications, so that ordinary people can use the disclosed methods in different practical ways and different modification methods to meet their intended uses. For this group of ordinary people there will be a more distinctly different practical approach to art. But it is pertinent to the present invention and cannot deviate from the scope and essence of the present invention. The scope of the disclosure is defined in the patent scope section, rather than the above description and description of specific examples therein.

Claims (3)

1. a CAD (computer aided design) method, at three-dimensional (3D) pictograph of computer screen display, is characterized in that this method comprises: user selects at least one pictograph, wherein each word combined by a series of stroke, and each stroke is then that a 3D element can be selected from one group of pre-designed 3D stroke element, settle the regular object selected pictograph stroke being built into one or more 3D according to first group, demonstrate the figure with multi-level 3D at computer screen, each 3D object is made up of multilayered structure, wherein each structural sheet at least comprises a 3D element, and relative to corresponding 3D element reference field, the structural sheet of at least two different height, wherein the arrangement rule of first group comprises movement, copy, Scalable, upset, develop and overlap, allow when settling 3D element to change default value, and each 3D element is made up of the partial continuous stroke of selected several pictograph, wherein, selected several pictograph is further according to the arrangement rule of second group, wherein the arrangement rule of second group comprises movement, copy, Scalable, upset, develop and overlap, allow when settling 3D element to change default value, at least one radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries of available selected part pictograph are as running unit, and radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries are at least made up of two strokes.

2. one can show the system of 3D pictograph at computer screen, it is characterized in that this system comprises: user can select the input method of at least one pictograph, wherein each word combined by a series of stroke, and each stroke is then that a 3D element can be selected from one group of pre-designed 3D stroke element, a database is for storing the data of performance 3D pictograph, one group of design module settles the regular object selected pictograph stroke being built into one or more 3D according to first group, the figure with multi-level 3D is demonstrated at computer screen, each 3D object is made up of multilayered structure, wherein each structural sheet at least comprises a 3D element, and relative to corresponding 3D element reference field, the structural sheet of at least two different height, wherein the arrangement rule of first group comprises movement, copy, Scalable, upset, develop and overlap, allow when settling 3D element to change default value, and each 3D element is made up of the partial continuous stroke of selected several pictograph, wherein, selected several pictograph is further according to the arrangement rule of second group, wherein the arrangement rule of second group comprises movement, copy, Scalable, upset, develop and overlap, allow when settling 3D element to change default value, at least one radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries of available selected part pictograph are as running unit, and radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries are at least made up of two strokes.

3. a system that can show 3D pictograph at computer screen according to claim 2, it is characterized in that wherein selected several pictograph is settled rule overlap according to second group or is butted into a 3D structure further, settle rule system using the partial continuous stroke of selected pictograph radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries as running unit for these two groups.