Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics

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APPLICATIONS FOR NPR

Throughout the book, the methods that have been introduced have also been illustrated directly using several different application domains. This has served to demonstrate the methods and at the same time suggest areas in which they are useful. This chapter now expands on selected applications and studies NPR in them per se.

We will start with animation, an area of application that is slowly emerging to a separate field of research in NPR. Indeed, animation data can be visualized either as moving images using NPR or even as still images with some additional markings to indicate movement. Next, we move to the area of visualization in architecture where handmade sketches are still being used extensively. Within this section, ...