Adaptive isocurves based rendering for freeform surfaces

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Publication Type technical report
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Program Advanced Research Projects Agency
Creator Cohen, Elaine
Other Author Elber, Gershon
Title Adaptive isocurves based rendering for freeform surfaces
Date 1992
Description Freeform surface rendering is traditionally performed by approximating the surface with polygons and then rendering the polygons This approach is extremely common because of the complexity in accurately rendering the surfaces directly Recently?? several papers presented methods to render surfaces as sequences of isocurves Unfortunately?? these methods start by assuming that an appropriate collection of isocurves has already been derived The algorithms themselves neither automatically create an optimal or almost optimal set of isocurves so the whole surface would be correctly rendered without having pixels redundantly visited nor automatically compute the parameter spacing required between isocurves to guarantee such coverage In this paper?? a new algorithm is developed to ll these needs An algorithm is introduced that automat ically computes a set of almost optimal isocurves covering the entire surface area This algorithm can be combined with a fast curve rendering method?? to make surface rendering without polygonal approximation practical
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Freeform surface rendering; Isocurves
Subject LCSH Surfaces -- Computer simulation
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Elber, G., & Cohen, E. (1992). Adaptive isocurves based rendering for freeform surfaces. UUCS-92-040.
Series University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report
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Rights Management ©University of Utah
Format Medium application/pdf
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Source University of Utah School of Computing
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