| Publication Type |
technical report |
| School or College |
College of Engineering |
| Department |
Computing, School of |
| Creator |
Thingvold, Jeffrey Allyn |
| Title |
Elastic and Plastic Surfaces for Modeling and Animation |
| Date |
1990 |
| Description |
This thesis presents eplastics, a modeling and animation tool developed to represent elastic and plastic surfaces under the B-spline representation. Eplastics derives its model from concepts found in physically based modeling of articulated motion, rigid bodies and deformable models. Eplastics works within the Alpha_1 environment and applies this model to the mesh of a B-spline surface to simulate elastic and plastic surfaces. This model consists of a set of points in space connected by springs to maintain distance relationships and by hinges to maintain orientation relationships. This thesis provides a background of previous work, describes the eplastics model in detail, discusses implementation and demonstrates eplastics by presenting the results of various test cases. |
| Type |
Text |
| Subject |
animation; modeling; eplastics; articulated motion; deformable; alpha_1; b-spline |
| Subject LCSH |
Computer graphics |
| Language |
eng |
| Bibliographic Citation |
Thingvold, J. A. (1990). Elastic and Plastic Surfaces for Modeling and Animation. |
| Series |
University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report |
| Relation is Part of |
ARPANET |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
42,827,622 bytes |
| File Name |
Thingvold-Elastic_and_Plastic.pdf |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6wd61t5 |
| Setname |
ir_computersa |
| ID |
103685 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd61t5 |
