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Fig. 10.2 An AR view of the complete painting The Half Kiss (iPad screenshot by Vladimir
Geroimenko)
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Painting 6: “The Hand of Moscow.” A digital photo painting of Moscow's Red
Square with a humorous AR parody on an infamous cold war cliché. Beware the
invisible hand! (see Figs. 10.5 and 10.6 ).
The above creative production has revealed that in response to the question
“What would make a good augmented reality painting per se ?”, the closest answer
would be “Integration, integration, integration!” Creative integration of physical and
digital is paramount for producing “a whole picture” - augmented reality paintings
are about the integration of physical and digital worlds to produce a coherent
whole. Consequently, painting, constructing and putting together augmented reality
artworks is a new and exciting area of creative practice.
The physical part of an augmented reality artwork can, in principle, be a painting
of any kind and technique, ranging from a specially produced one to an existing
masterpiece, such as a Van Gogh. It's worth mentioning, for example, a research
project in which visual AR-based information (e.g. the X-ray capture and the back
of the painting) has been laid over the original of such a masterpiece (Van Eck and
Kolstee 2012 ).
Having a deep respect for oil, acrylic and other traditional painting, we neverthe-
less consider digital painting and particularly Digital Photo Painting (Geroimenko
2011 ) as the most suitable for the implementation of painted AR artworks. Digital
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