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Publication Type technical report
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Creator Catmull, Edwin E.
Title A Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces
Date 1974-12
Description This report presents a method for producing computer shaded pictures of curved surfaces. Three-dimensional curved patches are used, as contrasted with conventional methods using polygons. The method subdivides a patch into successively smaller subpatches until a subpatch is as small as a raster- element, at which time it can be displayed. In general this method could be very time consuming because of the great number of subdivisions that must take place; however, there is at least one very useful class of patches - the bicubic patch - that can be subdivided very quickly. Pictures produced with the method accurately portray the shading and silhouette of curved surfaces. In addition, photographs can be 'mapped' onto patches thus providing a means for putting texture on computer-generated pictures. Doctoral thesis
Type Text
Language eng
Series University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report
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File Name ADA004968.pdf
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cg2j21

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