Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

Welcome to NPAR 2011, the ninth meeting of the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, taking place 5-7 August in Vancouver, BC, Canada and co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2011. NPAR unites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who share the goal of synthesizing expressive imagery for the visual communication of ideas and information. Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) has its roots in the emulation of both traditional media and the processes of artistic visualization and abstraction. Yet these goals have quickly diversified to span interfaces and interactive methods to aid the creative process. NPR is now a truly cross-disciplinary field, drawing not only from computer science and geometry, but from art, perception, and increasingly from human-computer interaction.