Interactive Generation of (Paleontological) Scientific Illustrations from 3D-models

Schäfer, Sebastian; Knopp, Christoph; Krömker, Detlef

Interactive Generation of (Paleontological) Scientific Illustrations from 3D-models

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Date

2012

Authors

Schäfer, Sebastian
Knopp, Christoph
Krömker, Detlef

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Scientific illustrations play an important role in the paleontological domain and are complex illustrations that are manually drawn. The artist creates illustrations that feature common expressive painting techniques: outlines, both irregular and periodic stippling as well as an abstract shaded surface in the background. We present a semiautomatic tool to generate these illustrations from 3D-models in real-time. It is based on an extensible GPU-based pipeline to interactively render characteristic into image-layers that are combined in an image-editing fashion. The user can choose the techniques used to render each layer and manipulate its key aspects. Using 3D- and 2D-painting the artist can still interact with the result and adjust it to his or her liking.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/CEIG/CEIG12/109-112
,
booktitle = {Spanish Computer Graphics Conference
},
editor = {Isabel Navazo and Gustavo Patow
},
title = {{Interactive Generation of (Paleontological) Scientific Illustrations from 3D-models
}},
author = {Schäfer, Sebastian and 
Knopp, Christoph and 
Krömker, Detlef
},
year = {2012
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-92-0
},
DOI = {/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/CEIG/CEIG12/109-112
}
}