Innovative use of visual communication style in product design based on fractal geometry

Abstract

Visual communication design, as an indispensable part of product design, plays an important role in enhancing the cultural connotation and aesthetic value of products. Based on fractal theory and supported by Iterative Function System (IFS), this paper studies the visual communication style design of patterns. Taking the flower pattern as an example, a method of automatic generation of flower pattern based on fractal geometry is proposed, and the effective value ranges of each parameter are derived through experiments and analyses to realize the digital visual communication design of the traditional handmade pattern. Then the generated fractal graphic is used as the content graphic, the style graphic is determined, the style migration technology is introduced, and the convolutional neural network model is constructed to build the style migration model of the product graphic, and experimental analyses are carried out to further improve the visual communication design of the product graphic. The average scores of this paper’s product graphic style migration method on aesthetics and style similarity are 3.95 and 3.81, respectively, and the p-values of the Mann-Whitney U-test are all less than 0.0001, which are significantly better than the baseline method. The average overall style similarity of this method on the real dataset is 86.27%, and the accuracy and mean square error on local style features are better than the VividGraph method, which has higher efficacy in performing product pattern style migration to realize visual communication style design.

Keywords: fractal geometry; iterative function system; convolutional neural network; neural style migration; product design