NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING OF ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED TREES

Nathan Dudley, Cindy Grimm

2007

Abstract

This paper presents a novel rendering technique inspired by artistic approaches. Instead of trying to recreate a traditional medium, such as charcoal or watercolor, this approach is a mixture of both photo-realism and abstraction. Artists use a process of abstraction to provide structural information about subjects that do not have clearly defined shapes, such as groups of leaves in a tree. For example, an artist will use a color wash to first approximate a group of leaves. They then add detail on top of parts of this wash to indicate the presence of individual leaves. Similarly, we use an abstract shape that approximates the image of leaves clustered at the end of a branch. To prevent oversimplification, we add photo-realistic detail using a blending process. Inter-frame coherence is achieved both by smoothly interpolating the abstract shapes, and the continuity inherent in the photo-realistically rendered detail.

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in Harvard Style

Dudley N. and Grimm C. (2007). NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING OF ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED TREES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-71-9, pages 197-203. DOI: 10.5220/0002072201970203


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp07,
author={Nathan Dudley and Cindy Grimm},
title={NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING OF ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED TREES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={197-203},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002072201970203},
isbn={978-972-8865-71-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,
TI - NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING OF ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED TREES
SN - 978-972-8865-71-9
AU - Dudley N.
AU - Grimm C.
PY - 2007
SP - 197
EP - 203
DO - 10.5220/0002072201970203