On speeding up ray tracing of B-spline surfaces

Computer-Aided Design

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 122-130

  Yang, Chang Gui ^a  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

algorithm; B splines; ray tracing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ALGORITHMS; OPTICS - GEOMETRICAL;

B-SPLINES; BOUNDING BOX TREES; RAY TRACING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0023332022     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(87)90196-5     Document Type: Article

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