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Implicit Sweep Objects
Author(s) -
Crespin Benoît,
Blanc Carole,
Schlick Christophe
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8659.1530165
Subject(s) - art , cartography , art history , geography
this paper, allthese models will be grouped under the generic name: iso-surfaces. In the iso-surface model, an objectis defined by a set of primitives that can be considered as potential fields. The boundary surface of theobject is then represented by the set of points for which the sum of the potential values equates a givenisovalue. Two competitive approaches can be taken to create complex shapes with the iso-surface model.Either the object may be described by a very large number of...