Skip to main content
Mathematica

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

5
  • $\begingroup$ Re: "can some of you do better than I at generating these diagrams" ... Better in what sense? $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 13, 2013 at 16:54
  • $\begingroup$ @belisarius Yes I was afraid of being asked that. I mean better in the sense of "more similar to the style seen in the book (e.g. in the Flickr images I linked to)". Of course, I expect since you are asking, that this is will not be precise enough! I can say what aspects of the style I'm having trouble replicating though. For instance, the combination of lighting and "salt-and-pepper" noise I am using doesn't get the quite the right density distribution of points. They should get much thicker at the edges, and be more sparse in the interior (at least for the sphere). $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 13, 2013 at 17:00
  • $\begingroup$ I think this should be alright as it would be considered fair use of the images. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 13, 2013 at 17:30
  • 6
    $\begingroup$ The technique you discuss is properly called stippling. It was a very common technical illustration shading technique back in the days before most technical illustrations were produced by computer. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 13, 2013 at 17:48
  • 4
    $\begingroup$ There is now a good answer on the official WRI blog. $\endgroup$ Commented May 6, 2016 at 19:05