Photographic rendering of environmental graphics in context: a collaboration between art and science made simple

  • Authors:
  • Jenny Morlan

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics - Focus: computer graphics education
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Environmental graphics is an interdisciplinary course in which art and computer science students produce professional quality presentations of original signage in an image that visualizes its appearance in an outdoor setting. This area of graphic design has been identified as one of the few where the application of computer graphics has not been fully developed. Previously, this task has been accomplished through expensive, tedious photographic retouching, or by less realistic felt-tipped marker renderings.The structure of this course is easily adaptable to other areas of applied and design art, including package design, industrial design and installation art, and requires only modest computing resources. The course is taught by an artist and a computer scientist, and satisfies degree requirements for the major in both departments.