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- Kulik, A. C. - A gallery of limited edition wood engravings by the Belfast, Maine-based artist, biographical information, description of his technique, a history of wood engraving, and links to related sites.
- Nejko, Paulette - A selection of woodcut prints that combine her knowledge and mastery of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques with a variety of New England scenes and subjects.
- Schneider, Michael - Woodblock prints by Austrian printmaker. Curriculum vitae, media projects, handmade books he has collaborated on, and photos of exhibitions of his work.
- Azarian, Mary - Vermont woodcut artist, book illustrator and Caldecott medalist offering books, notecards, hand colored woodcut prints, and an annual calendar online.
- Kiggell, Ralph - Contemporary woodblock prints, featuring recent works, details of events, biography and print process.
- Jolly Woodchopper Studio - Run by artisan Chad Hoffman specializing in jazz and musical woodcut prints; also creates furniture pieces and custom hardwood picture frames.
- Hokusai, Katsushika - Japanese painter and wood engraver Hokusai is considered to be one of the outstanding figures of the Ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world" (everyday life), school of printmaking.
- Hiroshige, Ando - Japanese painter and printmaker Hiroshige was the last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, and was known especially for his landscape prints. Features images of five of his woodblock prints.
- Milman, Barbara - Images and information on Barbara Milman, a printmaker, mixed media artist and author of a book of prints about the Holocaust.
- Miller, Randy - Finely detailed wood engravings printed on an antique letterpress, depicting rural American landscapes, old buildings, and the British Isles.
Wikipedia Articles
- Relief mapping - In computer graphics, relief mapping is an alternative texture mapping technique to parallax mapping that is much more accurate, and can support self-shadowing and normal mapping. It can be quite simply described as a short-distance raytrace done on a pixel shader; various techniques can be implemented to speed up the raytrace by taking variable step sizes.
- PDMS stamp - PDMS Stamps are pieces of PDMS that have been patterned usually against a master to form a relief pattern these are used in soft lithography. This PDMS stamp can be used in either its current form as a relief surface for techniques such as Micro Contact Printing or attached to an external source by tubing so that liquid may be past through channels on its surface.