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VISUALIZATION
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Shock and vortex visualization using a combined visual/Haptic interface
Specific rendering modes are developed for a combined visual/haptic interface to allow exploration and understanding of fluid dynamics data. The focus is on visualization of sho...
Dale A. Lawrence, Christopher D. Lee, Lucy Y. Pao,...
VIS
2003
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Shape Simplification Based on the Medial Axis Transform
We present a new algorithm for simplifying the shape of 3D objects by manipulating their medial axis transform (MAT). From an unorganized set of boundary points, our algorithm com...
Roger C. Tam, Wolfgang Heidrich
VISUALIZATION
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Curve-Skeleton Applications
Curve-skeletons are thinned 1D representations of 3D objects useful for many visualization tasks including virtual navigation, reduced-model formulation, visualization improvement...
Nicu D. Cornea, Deborah Silver, Patrick Min
ITICSE
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Curve and surface interpolation and approximation: knowledge unit and software tool
This paper describes a knowledge unit and the use of a software tool, DesignMentor, for teaching a very challenging topic in computer graphics and visualization, namely: curve and...
John Fisher, John L. Lowther, Ching-Kuang Shene
COMPGEOM
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Estimating surface normals in noisy point cloud data
In this paper we describe and analyze a method based on local least square fitting for estimating the normals at all sample points of a point cloud data (PCD) set, in the presenc...
Niloy J. Mitra, An Nguyen