Using metaballs to modeling and animate clouds from satellite images

Visual Computer

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 471-482

  Dobashi, Yoshinori ^a   Nishita, Tomoyuki ^b   Yamashita, Hideo ^c   Okita, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clouds; Image based modeling; Metaballs; Satellite image

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000367092     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003710050193     Document Type: Article

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