Chapter 12

Illustrative Medical Visualization

Abstract

Illustrative visualization techniques deviate from physically-based rendering. They were developed to create renditions that consider perceptual capabilities of humans. As an example, humans infer information about shape not only from realistic shading but also from hatching and from outlines that support the mental separation of nearby objects rendered in similar colors. Illustrative techniques are also motivated by human cognitive processes, such as attention and situation awareness. Thus, the additional degrees of freedom of illustrative visualization should be used to emphasize what the author the visualization considers important.

Illustrative visualization techniques are inspired by ...

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