Photorealism or/and non-photorealism in augmented reality

Actual graphic hardware becomes more and more powerful. Con-sequently, virtual scenes can be rendered in a very good quality in-tegrating dynamic behavior, real-time shadows, bump mapped sur-faces and other photorealistic rendering techniques. On the other hand, non-photorealistic rendering became popular as well, because of its artistic merits. An integration in an AR environment is the logical consequence. In this paper we present an AR framework that uses photorealistic rendering as well as non-photorealistic ren-dering techniques. The prototypes based on these techniques show the advantages and disadvantages of both technologies in combina-tion with Augmented Reality