I n this paper, we present a human-like nonphotorealistic rendering approach. A typical pi-ocess of’ how human engineers learn to paint technical illirsfration is as follows: At first 1he.v are trained on how to paint separate primitives such as cubes and spheres, and accordingly acciimirlate the empirical drawing principles arid skills during their continuous practices, and finally they can fi...

In this paper we discuss expressive visualization techniques that smartly uncover the most important information in order to maximize the visual information in the resulting images. This is achieved through dynamic changes in visual representations, through deformations, or through spatial modifications of parts of the data. Such techniques originate from technical illustration and are called c...

In this paper we discuss different approaches to generate cutaway illustrations. The purpose of such a drawing is to allow the viewer to have a look into an otherwise solid opaque object. Traditional methods to draw these kinds of illustrations are evaluated to extract a small and effective set of rules for a computer-based rendering of cutaway illustrations. We show that our approaches are not...

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JBC Vol. 32, No. 1 2006 A medical illustration is the culmination of centuries of medical philosophy, science, and spirituality. Despite similar beginnings, different circumstances surrounding the development of Chinese and Western medical thought eventually led to their divergence. Through an historical comparison, I will attempt to demonstrate how the East and the West came to have such diffe...

A largely neglected aspect in crowdsourcing research is the “Crowdsourcing Experience” itself, which every crowdsourcee is necessarily exposed to throughout the IT-mediated interaction process, potentially stimulating engagement towards the crowdsourcer. Hence, the crowdsourcees’ engagement process is conceptualized and illustrated with empirical findings from a pilot case. It exemplifies that ...