Within the field of computer graphics and visualization, it is often necessary to visualize polygonal models with large number of polygons. Display quality is mandatory, but it i...
Terrain visualization is a difficult problem for applications requiring accurate images of large datasets at high frame rates, such as flight simulation and ground-based aircraf...
Mark A. Duchaineau, Murray Wolinsky, David E. Sige...
A new geometry-based finite difference method for a fast and reliable detection of perceptually salient curvature extrema on surfaces approximated by dense triangle meshes is pro...
Shin Yoshizawa, Alexander G. Belyaev, Hideo Yokota...
A new tracing algorithm is described that supports haptic rendering of NURBS surfaces without the use of any intermediate representation. By using this tracing algorithm in conjun...
Thomas V. Thompson II, David E. Johnson, Elaine Co...
This paper presents a new and efficient algorithm for decomposition of 3D arbitrary triangle mesh into surface patches. Our method is based on the curvature tensor field analysis ...