Interactive Abstract Painting by Augmented Reality: Scenarios and Architecture Solutions

This article overviews services and platforms applied for application of technology of augmented reality (AR) to improve human-machine and painting-human interaction during observing abstract paintings. Besides, scenarios of AR application for fluid abstract paintings are systemized and discussed. The service based on project Artivive implementing AR for paintings is analysed. The approaches and architecture patterns for service, based on different scenarios are discussed. The developed architecture designs can be used to make the galleries of abstract paintings more interactive and engage more visitors. The suggested architecture solution (the project AR for Smart Abstract Art, ARSmArt) for the selected scenario “AR by Individual Visitor” is presented in case study. The ARSmArt architecture is compared to the existing Artivive based service. Future steps of research and development are described