Gomes / Voiculescu / Jorge Implicit Curves and Surfaces: Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithms

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84882-406-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, eBook

Implicit objects have gained increasing importance in geometric modeling, visualisation, animation, and computer graphics, because their geometric properties provide a good alternative to traditional parametric objects. This book presents the mathematics, computational methods and data structures, as well as the algorithms needed to render implicit curves and surfaces, and shows how implicit objects can easily describe smooth, intricate, and articulatable shapes, and hence why they are being increasingly used in graphical applications. Divided into two parts, the first introduces the mathematics of implicit curves and surfaces, as well as the data structures suited to store their sampled or discrete approximations, and the second deals with different computational methods for sampling implicit curves and surfaces, with particular reference to how these are applied to functions in 2D and 3D spaces.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gomes, Abel

Voiculescu, Irina

Jorge, Joaquim

Wyvill, Brian

Galbraith, Callum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mathematics and Data Structures.- Mathematical Fundamentals.- Spatial Data Structures.- Sampling Methods.- Root Isolation Methods.- Interval Arithmetic.- Root-Finding Methods.- Reconstruction and Polygonisation.- Continuation Methods.- Spatial Partitioning Methods.- Implicit Surface Fitting.- Designing Complex Implicit Surface Models.- Skeletal Implicit Modelling Techniques.- Natural Phenomenae-I: Static Modelling.- Natural Phenomenae-II: Animation.