DISTORTING NON-REALISTIC RENDITIONS
NPR entails not only adjusting the rendition style to the communication needs at hand, but also tuning the final image or even the geometric model itself so as to ensure that the space available for the final image is well used. Indeed, we had observed that practically all renditions made by hand (like pen-and-ink drawings, pencil sketches) are not drawn strictly to scale. As the style of art called photorealism illustrates, the reason for such deviations is not that the artist cannot draw any better, that is, that the artist may not be able to draw to scale, but rather that in a conscious or unconscious process, such images are drawn to imply that certain objects are more important than others. This, in ...
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