A Pyramidal Data Structure for Triangle-Based Surface Description

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 67-78

  De Floriani, Leila ^a  

^a Institute of Applied Mathematics of the National Research Council ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING--DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE PROCESSING--IMAGE CODING; SURFACES;

DELAUNAY PYRAMID; HIERARCHICAL SURFACE MODELS; PYRAMIDAL DATA STRUCTURE; TRIANGLE BASED SURFACE DESCRIPTION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0024627549     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.19053     Document Type: Article

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