
Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics
Modeling, Rendering, and Animation
Description
Key Features
- Hard-to-find information needed by a wide range and growing number of computer graphics programmers and applications users.
- Traces NPR principles and techniques back to their origins in human vision and perception.
- Focuses on areas that stand to benefit most from advances in NPR, including medical and architectural illustration, cartography, and data visualization.
- Presents algorithms for two and three-dimensional effects, using pseudo-code where needed to clarify complex steps.
- Helps readers attain pen-and-ink, pencil-sketch, and painterly effects, in addition to other styles.
- Explores specific challenges for NPR—including "wrong" marks, deformation, natural media, artistic technique, lighting, and dimensionality.
- Includes a series of programming projects in which readers can apply the book's concepts and algorithms.
Readership
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Pixel Manipulation of Images
Chapter 3 - Lines, Curves, and Strokes
Chapter 4 - Simulating Natural Media and Artistic Techniques
Chapter 5 - Stroke-Based Illustrations
Chapter 6 - Working with 2.5D Data Structures
Chapter 7 - Geometric Models and Their Exploitation in NPR
Chapter 8 - Lighting Models for NPR
Chapter 9 - Distorting Non-Realistic Renditions
Chapter 10 - Applications for NPR
Chapter 11 - A Conceptual Framework for NPR
Product details
- No. of pages: 496
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Morgan Kaufmann 2002
- Published: April 12, 2002
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Hardcover ISBN: 9781558607873
- eBook ISBN: 9780080512846
About the Authors
Thomas Strothotte
Thomas Strothotte is professor of computer science at the University of Magdeburg (Germany), where he founded undergraduate and graduate degree programs in computational visualistics. He studied at Simon Fraser University, the University of Waterloo, and McGill University. He has held teaching and research appointments at INRIA Rocquencourt, the University of Stuttgart, Free University of Berlin, and the former IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg.
Affiliations and Expertise
Stefan Schlechtweg
Stefan Schlechtweg is assistant professor at the University of Magdeburg (Germany), where his teaching and research areas are computer graphics and interactive systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Magdeburg in 1999.
Affiliations and Expertise
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