In the past, a number of non-photorealistic rendering methods that generate stone-stripe-like images from gray-scale photographic images have been proposed. In this paper, the conventional method is extended to a non-photorealistic rendering technique that generates stone-stripe-like color images from color photographic images. In order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, examination is conducted using several color photographic images, and the attractiveness of the

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... e-like color images generated by the proposed method is evaluated visually.