Topological Considerations in Isosurface Generation

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 337-375

  van Gelder, Allen ^a   Wilhelms, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ambiguity; isosurface extraction; scientific visualization; surface fitting; surface topology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA STRUCTURES; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SURFACES; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

AMBIGUITY; ISOSURFACE GENERATION; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; SURFACE FITTING; SURFACE TOPOLOGY; TOPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0028530360     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/195826.195828     Document Type: Article

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