Patent ID: 8817037

Claim:
A method for generating three dimensional image data with brushstroke effects from a two dimensional image, comprising: generating one or more three dimensional brushstroke patterns from at least one brushstroke; partitioning a two dimensional image into one or more color regions; for each color region, transforming each three dimensional brushstroke pattern to obtain a brushstroke effect; and applying each transformed three dimensional brushstroke pattern to each color region to generate a three dimensional image data having the brushstroke effect, wherein the applying further comprises generating a surface gradient map for each color region that is used to create mesh data, and generating a brushstroke image to be mapped to the mesh data based on an intensity value of a pixel where a transformed three dimensional brushstroke pattern is to be applied, an intensity value of a corresponding pixel of a transformed three dimensional brushstroke pattern to be applied, and a mean intensity value of the brushstroke image to be mapped to the mesh data.