3D Illustrative Effects for Animating Line Drawings

Description:

Most illustrative techniques used in non-photorealistic rendering to date apply a rendering style to objects or a scene and alter the appearance of this style by employing illumination or depth cueing. However, for generating high quality illustrations this approach relies almost entirely on smart placement of light sources. In this paper, we introduce the concept of illustrative effects to describe the workings of illustrative techniques that rely on spatial location rather than just illumination or depth. Although the rendering style is still object-dependent, this technique allows us to visualize or emphasize parts of objects or the whole scene without being limited by the scene's object decomposition. The approach also enforces the decoupling of the model and its animation from the visualization task. We demonstrate our approach using a sample collection of illustrative effects applied to line drawings. A uniform set of tools to manipulate these effects is provided.

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Main Reference:

Tobias Isenberg, Maic Masuch, and Thomas Strothotte (2000) 3D Illustrative Effects for Animating Line Drawings. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV, July 19–21, London, England, UK). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Los Alamitos, California, pages 413–418, 2000.

BibTeX entry:



@INPROCEEDINGS{Isenberg:2000:3IE,
  author      = {Tobias Isenberg and Maic Masuch and Thomas Strothotte},
  title       = {{3D} Illustrative Effects for Animating Line Drawings},
  booktitle   = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV, July 19--21, London, England, UK)},
  year        = {2000},
  pages       = {413--418},
  publisher   = {The Institute of Electrical and Electronics		  Engineers, Inc.},
  address     = {Los Alamitos, California},
  doi         = {10.1109/IV.2000.859790},
  doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2000.859790},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Isenberg20003IE},
  url2        = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2000.859790},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Isenberg_2000_3IE.pdf},
}

Other Reference:

Tobias Isenberg (1999) Visualisierungseffekte in liniengraphischen Animationen und Stillbildern [Visualization Effects in Animated and Single-Frame Line Drawings]. Diplom thesis at the Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, 1999. In German, also see paper at IV 2000.

BibTeX entry:



@MASTERSTHESIS{Isenberg:1999:VLA,
  author      = {Tobias Isenberg},
  title       = {{V}isualisierungseffekte in liniengraphischen {A}nimationen und {S}tillbildern [{V}isualization Effects in Animated and Single-Frame Line Drawings]},
  type        = {Diplom thesis at the Department of Simulation and Graphics},
  year        = {1999},
  school      = {Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg},
  address     = {Germany},
  url         = {diplom/},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Isenberg_1999_VLA.pdf},
}

This work was done at the Department of Simulation and Graphics at the University of Magdeburg, Germany.