Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

The ubiquity of computer-generated imagery around us, in movies, advertising or on the
Internet is already being taken for granted and what impresses most people is the …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Silhouettes play an important role in shape recognition because they provide one of the
main cues for figure-to-ground distinction. However, since silhouettes are view dependent …

This paper draws from art history and perception to place computer depiction in the broader
context of picture production. It highlights the often underestimated complexity of the …

A way to create effective stylized line drawings is to draw strokes that start and stop at visible
portions along the silhouette of an object to be portrayed. In computer graphics to date …

Scientists, engineers, and artists regularly use illustrations in design, training, and education
to display conceptual information, describe problems, and solve those problems …

There is a growing interest for providing interactive graphics also on mobile devices like
PDAs, Smartphones, etc. Right now mobile devices are very limited concerning graphical …

Creating 3D plant models is often a hard and laborious task. To make it easier and more
natural, we propose a sketch-based interface for modeling single-compound plant structures …