Exploring Emotion Brushes for a Virtual Reality Painting Tool

Abstract

We present emoPaint, a virtual reality application that allows users to create paintings with expressive emotion-based brushes and shapes. While previous systems have introduced painting in 3D space, emoPaint focuses on supporting emotional characteristics by allowing users to use brushes corresponding to specific emotions or to create their own emotion brushes and paint with the corresponding visual elements. Our system provides a variety of line textures, shape representations and color palettes for each emotion to enable users to control expression of emotions in their paintings. In this work we describe our implementation and illustrate paintings created using emoPaint.