Painting Camera

This webpage presents a simple and intuitive rendering technique to create abstract paintings. This technique allows the users to render a given scene with multiple cameras, using a method inspired by concepts used by cubist and futurist abstract painters. We use images to control camera parameters. The red, green and blue values in a given pixel determines the camera parameters such as position and orientation. Implementation of the camera painting is extremely simple. Any ray-tracer can easily be expanded to include the camera painting.

We obtained a wide range of painting styles by using painting camera technique. Our work shows that the cubist approach of using more than one camera is a useful paradigm to create interesting images. The following are examples of images we have created by using painting camera technique.