Automatic Generation Technology of Oracle Bone Characters Based on the Mechanism of Character-Building

Abstract

Because of the particularity of Oracle-bone inscriptions, the form of the character library is not suitable for Oracle-bone inscriptions. This study proposes a kind of automatic generation method of Oracle-bone characters based on the mechanism of character-building. Firstly, the method research on oracle-bone characters making principles and archetype matching theory, a mathematical model of automatic generation of oracle-bone characters based on the theory of point set topology; at the same time, this paper gives out the automatic generation of oracle-bone characters frame construction design system. Secondly, it studies the modeling methods of the structure, strokes and components of oracle bone characters, and proposes a computational model of oracle bone characters based on semantic components and their spatial positions. Thirdly, By defining the basic meta-strokes, combination meta-strokes and extension meta-strokes of oracle bone character, the structure of oracle bone character component is represented, and the combination of semantic component is realized by space transformation vector. An oracle-bone glyph description algorithm based on structure and components is designed to lay a foundation for oracle's explicated, classified, retrieved and coding, as well as a solid theoretical foundation for oracle's intelligent writing system.