Automatic mandala pattern design and generation based on COOM framework

Abstract

We propose a novel framework to automatically design and generate exquisite color mandala patterns. First, we summarize pre-requirements for generating reasonable and applicable mandala patterns followed by introducing COOM (Curve, Object, Operation and Model), the fundamental framework of mandala pattern generator. The framework defines how to effectively create visually pleasing mandala sketches. Then we propose a color transfer-based method to colorize the mandala sketch, in which all similar regions will share the same color. Currently, the automatically generated mandala patterns have been used in a mobile game with 3 million DAU (Daily Active Users). The experiments show that our mandala generator is quite effective and comparable with professional artists.