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Displaying geological 3‐D surfaces using computer graphics
Author(s) -
SOWERBUTTS W. T. C.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1988.tb00549.x
Subject(s) - computer graphics , computer graphics (images) , geology , graphics , computer science
Now that increasing quantities of geological information are being handled by computer, computer graphic techniques are being used more and more to display the information in graphical form. In this article I show that computer graphic techniques for displaying surfaces have applications in many branches of geology.