Dynamic Presentations for Illustration Purposes
Roland Jesse.
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, March,
2004. [BibTeX]
Enhanced Visual Authoring Using Operation History
Sara L. Su.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
2009. [BibTeX]
Fast Techniques for Non Photorealistic Rendering
Author(s): G. Di Blasi.
PhD Thesis: University of Catania, Italy,
2006.
[BibTeX] 
Abstract:
This thesis investigates the problem of producing nonphotorealistic digital images especially for aesthetic purposes; this research field has not an "official" name yet within the larger realm of Computer Science, some people call it Artistic Rendering (AR), [Col04], some others, Computational Aesthetics (CA), [Com06], someone else NonPhotorealistic Rendering (NPR). In this thesis I prefer the term "Computational Aesthetics" because I think that this term better explains the "essence", the purpose and the aim of this field: to reproduce the aesthetic essence of human arts by mean of computational tools. Specifically, I address the problem of mosaics rendering, proposing novel algorithms for fast mosaics creation starting from real images. In this thesis I present several methods (together with many improvements) to transform a raster input image into good quality mosaics: artificial (or ancient) mosaics, photomosaics and puzzle image mosaics. The main goal of all methods is to produce good results in an acceptable time and without (or with a minimal) user intervention. Examples reported in this thesis show how the right mixture of mathematical and computational tools may lead to impressive aesthetic results.
Frame-Coherent 3D Stippling for Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics
Oscar E. Meruvia Pastor.
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany,
2003. [BibTeX]
High-Quality Visualization and Filtering of Textures and Segmented Volume Data on Consumer Graphics Hardware
Markus Hadwiger.
VRVis Research Center and Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology,
2004. [BibTeX]
Higher Level Techniques for the Artistic Rendering of Images and Video
John P. Collomosse.
University of Bath, UK, May,
2004. [BibTeX]
Human Facial Illustrations: Creation and Evaluation using Behavioral Studies and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Bruce Gooch.
University of Utah, July,
2003. [BibTeX]
Hybrid Sketching: A New Middle Ground Between 2- and 3-D.
John Alex.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2005. [BibTeX]
Illustrating Transparency: communicating the 3D shape of layered transparent surfaces via texture
Victoria Interrante.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
1996. [BibTeX]
Image-Based Pen-and-Ink Illustration
Michael P. Salisbury.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle,
1997. [BibTeX]