Digilog orchid: interactive ink-and-wash painting project

This paper describes a digital project in which ink-and-wash painting, an East Asian art form with a 1,300-year history, is drawn in interaction with an audience. This project was intended to analyze the traditional thoughts and techniques associated with the ink-and-wash painting of an orchid, a design that expresses Eastern philosophy. The project relies on an interactive technique to demonstrate that modern users may derive psychological benefits from the “digilog orchid” in a manner similar to that of classical scholars of the past, who trained their minds through the act of ink-and-wash orchid painting.