Ink-and-wash painting oriental cymbidium drawn with the tip of the fingers

Abstract

During the old days in the orient, people used to wipe cymbidium leaves or painted cymbidium for mental training by having a cymbidium always by their side. Through the act of wiping cymbidium leaves with utmost care, a cymbidium instilled with ancient philosophical ideas is visualized, and just as God breathed life into human nostrils and created a living life form, if a breath is breathed into a cymbidium flower, a cymbidium flower with an excellent fragrance is visualized. This work is an interactive visualization of an oriental cymbidium using modern technology which our oriental ancestors painted for mental training. © ACM 2010.