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In anatomy, and even more in surgery, the viewer’s expectation of a good illustration is to get reliable information about form, structure, and sometimes also texture of the depicted objects. Within printed illustrations this can be achieved by using different kinds of drawings or even photographs. Here structure can be depicted by color coding, texture by “shading” the surface differently. The general presentation goals, as stated in Chap. 4, also apply here. Besides that, medical illustrations include an artistic handling of the subject and thus a medical illustration can be regarded as a fusion of science and the graphic image.
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Strothotte, T. (1998). Interactive Medical Illustrations. In: Computational Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59847-0_17
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