An Evaluation of Implicit Surface Tilers

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 33-41

  Ning, Paul ^a   Bloomenthal, Jules ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TOPOLOGY;

IMPLICIT SURFACE TILERS; MULTIENTRY CUBICAL TABLES; POLYGONIZATION; TRIANGLES;

SURFACES;

EID: 0027695683     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.252552     Document Type: Article

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