Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics Library

Illustrative Rendering of Segmented Anatomical Data

Author(s): Zean Salah, Dirk Bartz, Wolfgang Straßer.
Proceedings: Symposium on Simulation and Visualization, Magdeburg, 2005.
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Abstract:
Medical illustrations use simple drawing styles to demonstrate shapes and features of organs and organ systems, while omitting irrelevant details. In this contribution, we present a non-photorealistic rendering algorithm for illustrating anatomical data. Unlike other existing methods that rely on available triangulations of the organs to be rendered, our approach relies only on a subset of surface points, together with their normals. The advantage is that surface points and normals can be quite easily extracted from medical data, without an intermediate triangulation.