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American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA).
The ASBA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting public awareness
of contemporary botanical art, to honoring its traditions, and to furthering its
development. Worth checking out:
Member Gallery.
Paul A. Barber and Philip J. Keane (2007):
A
novel method of illustrating microfungi. PDF file,
Fungal Diversity, 27: 1-10.
"... Composite line drawings in most cases can represent
the morphological characters of a fungus
better than digital photographic images
[...] A novel technique combining computer
hardware and software to illustrate microfungi as line drawings is described in detail ..."
Stefan Bruckner et al. (2010): Hybrid visibility compositing and masking for illustrative rendering. Comput Graph., 34: 361-369.
B.J. Ford (2003): Scientific illustration in the eighteenth century. PDF file.
Felice Frankel: Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image. Book announcement, by Amazon.
K. Guenther (2010): Scientific Illustration in Anthropology. PDF file.
The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
S. Hiller et al. (2003):
Beyond Stippling
- Methods for Distributing Objects on the Plane. PDF file.
"Conventionally, stippling is an effective technique for representing surfaces in pen-and-ink.
We present new efficient methods for stipple drawings by computer ..."
Now recovered from the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
Elaine R.S. Hodges (ed.), Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (U.S.):
The
Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration, 2nd Edition, (2003). 656 pages, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
This is an indispensable reference guide for anyone who produces, assigns, or simply
appreciates scientific illustration. See also
here.
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Some chapters are available via
Google
books.
Bernhard A. Huber, Alexander Koenig Zoological
Research Museum, Bonn, Germany:
Making
a scientific drawing.
This expired link
is available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
International Association of Astronomical Artists
T. Isenberg: Visualisierungseffekte in liniengraphischen Animationen und Stillbildern. PDF file, in German.
J. Krüger and R. Westermann (2007):
Efficient
stipple rendering. In PDF, Proceedings of IADIS Computer Graphics and Visualization. Good examples!
Still available via Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
A. Lu et al. (2002):
Non-photorealistic
volume rendering using stippling techniques. PDF file, IEEE Conference on Visualization, 2002.
See also
here.
M. Lynch (1985): Discipline and the material form of images: An analysis of scientific visibility. PDF file, Social Studies of Science.
J. Madhusoodanan (2016):
Science
illustration: Picture perfect. In PDF,
Nature, 534: 285–287.
Note the Gilboa Fossil Forest reconstruction.
Bryan Maycock et al. (2009): Where to Begin? Eye-Movement When Drawing. Journal of Research Practice, 5.
G. Montesanto (2015): A fast GNU method to draw accurate scientific illustrations for taxonomy. Zookeys, 515: 191–206.
K.M. Northcut (2011): Insights from illustrators: The rhetorical invention of paleontology representations. Abstract, Technical Communication Quarterly.
K.M. Northcut (2007): Introduction: visual communication in life sciences. Technical Writing and Communication, 37.
! K.M. Northcut (2004):
The
making of knowledge in science: case studies of paleontology illustration.
In PDF. Dissertation, Texas Tech University.
See also
here.
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J.M. Ottino (2003):
Is
a picture worth 1,000 words?
Abstract, Nature.
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See also
here
(in PDF).
Rezwan Sayeed and Toby Howard (2006): State of the Art Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) Techniques (PDF file).
! Mario Costa Sousa: Scientific Illustration - Part 1: Traditional Techniques and NPR Approaches. PDF file.
Harold Speed: The Practice and Science Of Drawing. Ebook, Project Gutenberg.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Line art
Line drawing
Drawing
Category:Graphic design
Category:Graphics
S.R. Williams:
Scientific
Drawing in Biology. PDF file.
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