Visibility maps and spherical algorithms

Computer-Aided Design

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 6-16

  Woo, Tony C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithms; computational geometry; curvature; data structures; manufacturing; mappings; surface normals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001844649     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(94)90003-5     Document Type: Article

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