Abstract
Wayang kulit Kelantan, a preeminent shadow play in Malaysia is currently threatened with imminent extinction. At the moment of this writing, the existing efforts made to preserve this traditional cultural heritage are apparently insufficient. Therefore it is clear that with the current situation in Malaysia and the level of official support, wayang kulit Kelantan is unlikely to last long. To overcome this problem, on one hand, some researchers suggested to digitise wayang kulit Kelantan as a mean of preservation. On the other hand, there are also researchers who attested that there is a dire need for Malaysians to promote this art form by using modern technology. This paper presents a methodology framework of using Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) to emulate the visual of wayang kulit Kelantan. Experiments have been carried out to vindicate the veracity of the framework, and the results show that realistic and plausible visual of wayang kulit Kelantan can be emulated by using the proposed framework.
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This paper is a revised and expanded version of my paper entitled “A Framework to Emulate the Visual of Malaysian Shadow Play with Computer-generated Imagery (CGI)” presented in the First EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering, NOVEMBER 11–12, 2016, PENANG, MALAYSIA.
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Khor, KK. (2018). A Methodological Framework to Emulate the Visual of Malaysian Shadow Play With Computer-Generated Imagery. In: Zelinka, I., Vasant, P., Duy, V., Dao, T. (eds) Innovative Computing, Optimization and Its Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 741. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66984-7_19
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