Photogrammetry-Based 3D Printing Reproduction Method for Oil Paintings

This paper proposes a new oil painting reproduction method using 3D printing to compensate for the deficiencies of the existing methods. First, 3D reconstruction of oil paintings is completed by photogrammetry; the oil painting color and the 3D geometric information are recovered better by acquiring several sets of orthophotomaps, and modeling accuracy is ensured with a control mesh or by flattening. Next, the contours and hypsometric tints of the 3D model for oil paintings are generated using contour tracing algorithm, and the image segmentation of renderings is completed using RGB image segmentation algorithm, with the layered section extracted from each layer and the 3D geometric information converted into 2D plane information. Finally, the 3D models of oil paintings are presented through UV inkjet printing with images superimposed layer upon layer, and stereoscopic reproduction of oil paintings is completed based on the orthophotomaps printed from the 3D models.