#23: Recent Advances in Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Art and Visualization

Organizer
Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis)

Lecturers
Aaron Hertzmann (The University of Washington)
Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota)
Eric Lum (University of California, Davis)
Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis)

Overview
A concise introduction to non-photorealistic rendering (NPR): generation of artistic imagery and perceptually effective scientific visualization. This course delivers working knowledge of fundamental NPR techniques and some of the advanced approaches at the forefront of NPR research.

Prerequisites
Basic understanding of computer graphics and visualization.

Topics
Understanding NPR, the relevance of visual perception and artistic techniques to NPR, and appropriate use of NPR. Introduction of a suite of fundamental techniques for generating NPR imagery. Brush-stroke rendering, style rendering, paint-inspired techniques, mixing photo-realistic rendering and NPR, hardware-accelerated NPR, and parallel NPR.

Course #23 Notes (PDF, 120.3MB)