Ways to control the direction of linear shadings on NPR

Hi, anyone have seen something about a way to get control over the texture lines that some cartoon shaders have?
I mean: for example to make them follow a direction related whith the object normals or whith the object poligon loops.
For example in this render the lines are seted to follow diferent directions related whith the object topology.
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