Artistic impression of a B-cell with B-cell receptor signaling components-accompanying the review article by Vaqué et al. in this issue (image created by www.somersault1824.com).

A 2012 MIT Press book by Steven L. Tanimoto focuses on types of images that are markedly different from the examples found in other texts on similar topics. In addition to introducing basic image programming methods, it encourages exploration of the artistic and aesthetic aspects of image synthesis and image transformations.

Artistic image understanding is an interdisciplinary research field of increasing importance for the computer vision and art history communities. One of the goals of this field is the implementation of a system that can automatically retrieve and annotate artistic images. The best approach in the field explores the artistic influence among different artistic images using graph-based learning me...

This chapter explores algorithms for the artistic stylisation (transformation) of photographs into digital artwork, complementing techniques discussed so far in this book that focus on image generation. Most artistic stylisation algorithms operate by placing atomic rendering primitives “strokes” on a virtual canvas, guided by automated artistic heuristics. In many cases the stroke placement pro...

Illustrative parallel coordinates (IPC) is a suite of artistic rendering techniques for augmenting and improving parallel coordinate (PC) visualizations. IPC techniques can be used to convey a large amount of information about a multidimensional dataset in a small area of the screen through the following approaches: (a) edge-bundling through splines; (b) visualization of “branched ” clusters to...