Have any of you seen this? John Clements and I were watching these videos in our spare time at work. They are VERY cool. NPR - non photorealistic-renderings. This was a SIGGRAPH paper, but there are movies for download. They are large (one is 63 MBs, the other is 103 MBs). There's also a 2.4 MB PDF file for those unable to watch the videos. Basically it's a system for painting artistic brush strokes on 3D - both for animations and stills. It includes distance determined level of details, silhouette direction detection, and a lot more. It's kinda hard to really describe it. If you're at all interested in seeing 3d turned to true hand-painted art, download these videos. They are encoded in DivX (5), and they are well worth the download.

Links are as follows:
NPR Research Site

NPR -- PDF Document

63 MB Video Demonstration -- REALLY COOL

103 MB Video Demonstration (hidden lines, animation) -- Also REALLY COOL

[This message was edited by Earl Wilson IV on August 25, 2003 at 15:29.]