Imitation of Handwriting for Art and Heritage in Cyberspace

Abstract

Individual handwriting is an important feature of a person, reflecting his personality, cultural and intellectual level. The possibility of using in the cyberspace a unique manner of writing the text, which is inherent in every person, promotes the strengthening of the personal principle, emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual. The article deals with the problem of constructing individual digital fonts based on handwriting samples. To describe the font, a "trajectory format" is used, in which characters of the font are represented by fat curves. A fat curve is a family of circles centered on a smooth curve. To build a font for a given pattern, we solve the problem of fitting the fat curves to the bitmap image of handwritten text. The article proposes the solution of this problem, based on the continuous medial representation of the object shape in binary images.