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15. Illustration and Artistic Techniques

In applications such as scientific visualization and technical illustration photorealism detracts from rather than enhances the information in the rendered image. Applications such as cartography and computer aided design benefit from the use of hidden surface elimination and 3D illumination and shading techniques, but the goal of increased insight from the generated images suggests some different processing compared to those used to achieve photorealism.



 

David Blythe
1999-08-06