• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.894-906
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• 2006

There are many difficulties to develop a mobile contents due to many constraints on mobile environments. It is difficult to make a good mobile contents with only visual reduction of existing contents on wire Internet. Therefore, it is essential to devise the data representation and to develop the authoring tool to meet the needs of the mobile contents market. We suggest the compact mobile contents to learn Chinese characters and developed its authoring tool. The animation which our system produces is realistic as if someone writes letters with pen or brush. Moreover, our authoring tool makes a user generate a Chinese character animation easily and rapidly although she or he has not many knowledge in computer graphics, mobile programming or Chinese characters. The method to generate the stroke animation is following: We take basic character shape information represented with several contours from TTF(TrueType Font) and get the information for the stroke segmentation and stroke ordering from simple user input. And then, we decompose whole character shape into some strokes by using polygonal approximation technique. Next, the stroke animation for each stroke is automatically generated by the scan line algorithm ordered by the stroke direction. Finally, the ordered scan lines are compressed into some integers by reducing coordinate redundancy As a result, the stroke animation of our system is even smaller than GIF animation. Our method can be extended to rendering and animation of Hangul or general 2D shape based on vector graphics. We have the plan to find the method to automate the stroke segmentation and ordering without user input.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06b
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• pp.188-191
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• 2010

최근 다양한 2D 기반 스케치 기법이 제시되고 이를 활용한 다양한 어플리케이션이 제작되고 있다. 이러한 스케치 기법들은 사용자의 인터페이스에 많은 영향을 주고 있다. 그 중에 제스처 기법은 사용자의 글자 인식과 메뉴의 빠른 접근을 위해서 널리 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 페이퍼 커팅 기법이라고 불리는 예술 분야의 기술을 구현하기 위해서 제스처를 활용한 인터페이스를 제시하고 향후에 이를 응용한 모바일 분야에서의 응용에 대하여 고찰해 보았다. 본 논문에서는 구현을 위하여 제스처 인식 방법을 위한 스케치 인식과 애니메이션을 위한 시간 조정 방법을 제시 하였다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.526-534
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• 2006

이 논문에서는 트루타입 폰트의 글자 외곽선 데이터를 이용하여 자동으로 한자의 획을 분리하고 획 순서를 정하는 방법을 제안한다. 트루타입 폰트에는 글자의 외곽선 정보가 벡터 형식으로 저장되어 있으며, 이러한 벡터들은 일정한 규칙으로 배열되어 있다. 이와 같은 벡터들의 배치를 이용하여 한자의 획이 될 수 있는 벡터들의 집합을 조합하여 독립적인 획을 분리해 내고, 글자를 획 별로 분리하여 본래 트루타입 폰트의 저장 형식과 동일한 파일 형식으로 저장한다. 또한 분리된 모든 획에 대하여, 획 이름을 정의하고, 정의된 획들 간의 위치와 상관관계를 이용하여, 획 사이의 우선순위를 결정하여 획 순서를 부여한다. 이 작업들은 사람의 작업 없이 순수하게 자동으로 이루어지므로, 시간과 노력을 최소화 할 수 있다. 게다가, 획 별로 분리되고 순서대로 정리된 한자들은 트루타입 폰트에 저장되어 있는 모양과 특성을 그대로 가지고 있으므로, 단순히 폰트 자체로써 사용할 수도 있을 뿐만 아니라, 한자 학습 컨텐츠로도 이용이 가능하며, 각종 애니메이션 효과 등 다양한 분야에서 융통성 있게 활용될 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.10-18
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• 2005

이 논문에서는 트루타입 폰트(TrueType Font)의 글자 외곽선 데이터를 이용하여 자동으로 한자의 획을 분리하고 획 순서를 정하는 방법을 제안한다. 트루타입 폰트에는 글자의 외곽선 정보가 벡터 형식으로 저장되어 있으며, 이러한 벡터들은 일정한 규칙으로 배열되어 있다. 이와 같은 벡터들의 배치를 이용하여 한자의 획이 될 수 있는 벡터들의 집합을 조합하여 독립적인 획을 분리해 내고, 글자를 획 별로 분리하여 본래 트루타입 폰트의 저장 형식과 동일한 파일 형식으로 저장한다. 또한 분리된 모든 획에 대하여, 획 이름을 정의하고, 정의된 획들 간의 위치와 상관관계를 이용하여, 획 사이의 우선순위를 결정하여 획 순서를 부여한다. 이 작업들은 사람의 작업 없이 순수하게 자동으로 이루어지므로, 시간과 노력을 최소화 할 수 있다. 게다가, 획별로 분리되고 순서대로 정리된 한자들은 트루타입 폰트에 저장되어 있는 모양과 특성을 그대로 가지고 있으므로, 단순히 폰트 자체로써 사용할 수도 있을 뿐만 아니라, 한자 학습 컨텐츠로도 이용이 가능하며, 각종 애니메이션 효과 등 다양한 분야에서 융통성 있게 활용될 수 있다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.12
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• pp.13-26
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• 2007

The wordless comics means comics without word and only the image. The study treats the research and the analysis on the wordless comics as the transition. The degree of study are the wordless comics is used as transition with material and scene, with subject and narrative and so on. These practical use of the wordless comics influence how much dramatic effect with comics rather than text comics.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.42
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• pp.241-262
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• 2016

British TV Channel 4 is one of the famous TV Channel in the world. Its station ID has also played a leading role in the developments of Motion Graphics including station IDs. This station ID's main visual design concept is its name and an iconic logo '4' at the same time. The first channel 4 station ID was designed by using modular typography to construct the iconic '4'. Modular typography is a technique of creating letters with similar elements. Channel 4's station ID was constructed from coloured polygons. The polygons split and converge at the same point in 3D space. Modularity in Channel 4's station ID is evidenced by the similar units of polygons. After the first station ID, Channel 4 was re-branded. Eventhough the station IDs which followed did not use coloured and geometrical polygons, modularity is seen in most of the station IDs especially between 2004 - 2011. In these station IDs, the iconic '4' is formed from similar natural and environmental objects like rocks, buildings, lights etc. In this analysis paper, there is a visual narrative on the history of Channel 4, the concept of modular typography in the original station ID and the application of modular typography in other Channel 4's station IDs.

• Archives of design research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.127-136
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• 2003

Each country, each organization and individual have pursued their own identity, which require a unique design discriminated from other countries, cultures and people. As character related industries including character, cartoon, animation and CF appeared everywhere, development of character of mascot concept which can highlight individual personality has been required. This study is to meet these requirements and develop character of Korean subject as the concept of mascot or guard angel in order to develop the unique design with discriminative features from individual identity. For this, this study named it "Individual Character", analyzes the Korean traditional incantatory patterns and develops three patterns such as line art character, five-color 2D character and letter '||'&'||' picture 3D character as a form having individual character with the twelve gods of the earth through examination of materials of traditional patterns home and aborad. These three-typed characters seek strategies by types and are applied to calender, ceramic, metal, animation source, living goods and accessories. Application to commodities include line art and the products of 20 and 3D types based on re-design and add metal, paper, web and ceramic. Therefore this study finds that "Individual Character' using traditional incantatory patterns can discover the cultural identity and originality through Korean design creation and application of "Individual Character" to character industry can develop the pluralistic characters with a material and it can be extended to consumption goods.onsumption goods.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.50
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• pp.327-347
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• 2018

From the end of the 18th century to the end of the 19th century, the late 19th century was a genre of a new art that was in contrast to the distribution between social class and low class, and it was also a popular culture that attempted to transform the late Joseon Dynasty's social class. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the origin of the Korean folk art, started as popular art concepts, use colorful techniques and decorations which doesn't yield to ordinary iconography. But, because of the attempt of this technique was used by lower class, the meaning of the idea was lowered from iconography to secular picture. Ethics character picture, passed on to the present from going through the upheaval cultural time, was started from secular picture and transformed into hyukpil time illustration, and it represented popular arts until now. This thesis aims to reflect the meaning, various visual expressions and the lifestyle of Ethics Character Picture of filial piety and brotherly love, which is a unique genre of popular arts. Also, propose to suggest about the kinetic typography using video media, and how the traditional ethics character picture, which are combined with video technology, effects to the advertisements. These kind of attempts will show the world about the korea's traditional contents, and through the various media information it can be recreated as national symbolic key words. Furthermore, its meaningful to pass down the noble and cultural Ethics Character Picture of filial piety and brotherly love to younger generations. And by realigning to modern expression, it is predicted that it will be significantly meaningful to pass down and make the younger generations to understand to spirit of the ancestors. This will allow various attempts to reconstruct various items of contents from Korea's traditional contents to new media content that merged with video media.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.265-270
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• 2014

Hearing-impaired people have difficulty in hearing, so it is also hard for them to learn letters that represent sound and text that conveys complex and abstract concepts. Therefore it has been natural choice for the hearing-impaired people to use sign language for communication, which employes facial expression, and hands and body motion. However, the major communication methods in daily life are text and speech, which are big obstacles for the hearing-impaired people to access information, to learn and make intellectual activities, and to get jobs. As delivering information via internet become common the hearing-impaired people are experiencing more difficulty in accessing information since internet represents information mostly in text forms. This intensifies unbalance of information accessibility. This paper reports web-based text-to-sign language translating system that helps web designer to use sign language in web page design. Since the system is web-based, if web designers are equipped with common computing environment for internet browsing, they can use the system. The web-based text-to-sign language system takes the format of bulletin board as user interface. When web designers write paragraphs and post them through the bulletin board to the translating server, the server translates the incoming text to sign language, animates with 3D avatar and records the animation in a MP4 file. The file addresses are fetched by the bulletin board and it enables web designers embed the translated sign language file into their web pages by using HTML5 or Javascript. Also we analyzed text used by web pages of public services, then figured out new words to the translating system, and added to improve translation. This addition is expected to encourage wide and easy acceptance of web pages for hearing-impaired people to public services.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.45
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• pp.321-343
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• 2016

The purpose of this thesis is to look through the political and social background of China preparing for a new era after getting out of the Communist Party of Mao Zedong, rapid inflow of the Western modernism and the avant-garde art arising in China with the focus of art works of Xu Bing, which contributed to the expansion of printmaking of China. Particularly, 85 New Wave Movement arose by young artists since 1985 and the China/Avant-Garde Exhibition held in Beijing in 1989 are the two important issues which reflect a new change from the traditional Chinese art. The artists of 85 New Wave Movement, who pursued a historical revolution and novelty, worked very actively by leading private exhibitions. Since the Cultural Revolution, the government owned the National Museum of Fine Art Beijing had exhibitions on a large scale displaying various visual arts such as performing art, installation, painting, sculpture but the Chinese government interrupted exhibitions two time due to bold performing art and unconcealed installation. Some artists were even taken to the police when performing art. Under these circumstances, Xu Bing, who majored printmaking, produced one of his major works, Books from the sky(1988), while he was working on various experiments focusing on the production process of printmaking and its repetitiveness. Xu Bing devised letters, carved them in trees and finally created approximately 2000 characters. Going further he displayed it as installation work, which means the developed characters go beyond a printed form, for audiences. This made him earn favorable reviews since it was a form of western art coupled with Chinese contents 'Chinese character'. After he received unfavorable reviews, however, he went to America leaving his last work in China, Ghost Pounding the Wall, in 1990, which was not able to exhibited. In those days, China society was going through a chaotic era thanks to the extinction of the Cultural Revolution and Deng Xiaoping's(1904-1997) reformation after the debacle of Tiananmen Massacre. This study looks into Xu Bing's artworks from his initial print works until he went to the US in 1991 and examines how he performed experiments utilizing reproductivity and plurality of prints tinged with Chinese traditional elements, and ultimately became one of the avant-garde artists representing the period.