Streamlines for Illustrative Real-Time Rendering

dc.contributor.authorLawonn, Kaien_US
dc.contributor.authorMoench, Tobiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorPreim, Bernharden_US
dc.contributor.editorB. Preim, P. Rheingans, and H. Theiselen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T15:31:07Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T15:31:07Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractLine drawing techniques are important methods to illustrate shapes. Existing feature line methods, e.g., suggestive contours, apparent ridges, or photic extremum lines, solely determine salient regions and illustrate them with separate lines. Hatching methods convey the shape by drawing a wealth of lines on the whole surface. Both approaches are often not sufficient for a faithful visualization of organic surface models, e.g., in biology or medicine. In this paper, we present a novel object-space line drawing algorithm that conveys the shape of such surface models in real-time. Our approach employs contour- and feature-based illustrative streamlines to convey surface shape (ConFIS). For every triangle, precise streamlines are calculated on the surface with a given curvature vector field. Salient regions are detected by determining maxima and minima of a scalar field. Compared with existing feature lines and hatching methods, ConFIS uses the advantages of both categories in an effective and flexible manner. We demonstrate this with different anatomical and artificial surface models. In addition, we conducted a qualitative evaluation of our technique to compare our results with exemplary feature line and hatching methods.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12119en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.3 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectPicture/Image Generationen_US
dc.subjectLine and curve generationen_US
dc.titleStreamlines for Illustrative Real-Time Renderingen_US
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