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Non-photorealistic rendering denotes image synthesis techniques that apply illustrative, stylistic, and artistic depiction techniques to generate visual representations that partially or completely dismiss photorealism in favor of abstraction. With non-photorealistic rendering cartography and GIS obtain an innovative technology for designing and implementing of user and task oriented visualization systems and applications; it facilitates the implementation of visualization techniques that take into consideration, for example, cartographic design principles and specifics of geoinformation display.
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Since around 1990, NPR has established itself as a key category and discipline in computer graphics. Most researchers agree that the term “non-photorealistic” is not satisfactory because the notion of realism itself is not clearly defined nor its complement, the non-photorealism.
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Döllner, J. (2017). Visualization, Photorealistic and Non-photorealistic. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1458
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