Transparency in Interactive Technical Illustrations
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2002
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Blackwell Publishers, Inc and the Eurographics Association
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This paper describes how technical illustrations containing opaque and non-opaque objects can be automatically generated. Traditional methods to show transparency in manual drawings are evaluated to extract a small and effective set of rules for computer-based rendering of technical illustrations, leading to a novel view-dependent transparency model. We propose a hardware-accelerated depth sorting algorithm in image-space which specifically meets the requirements of our transparency model. In this way, real-time rendering of semi-transparent technical illustrations is achieved. Finally, it is described how our approach can be combined with other methods in the field of non-photorealistic rendering in order to enhance the visual perception of technical illustrations.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Color, shading, shadowing and texture
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@article{10.1111:1467-8659.t01-1-00591,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Transparency in Interactive Technical Illustrations}},
author = {Diepstraten, J. and Weiskopf, D. and Ertl, T.},
year = {2002},
publisher = {Blackwell Publishers, Inc and the Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/1467-8659.t01-1-00591}
}