The software accurately simulates the 3D texture ... canvas. If you’ve ever examined an oil painting up close, it doesn’t look like a flat 2D image that comes out of a color printer. The paint ...

Viewing a piece of art is not just an encounter with colour, light, shape texture ... framed canvas or feature grouping, but as a three-dimensional creation sculpted and painted directly onto ...

Instapainting, a YC-backed company launching this morning, turns any photo into a hand-painted piece on canvas for under $100 ... doing the whole photo-into-art thing for years.

The same thing can happen with 3D and ... painting showing this effect, and the team used that data to estimate the flow rate of the paint as the artist's hand moved across the canvas.