BOXTREE: A hierarchical representation for surfaces in 3D

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 387-396

  Barequet, Gill ^a   Chazelle, Bernard ^b   Guibas, Leonidas J ^c   Mitchell, Joseph S B ^d   Tal, Ayellet ^e  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collision detection; Hierarchical data structures; Ray shooting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SURFACES;

BOXTREE; COLLISION DETECTION; OCTREES; RAY SHOOTING; RAY TRACING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0030246101     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.1530387     Document Type: Article

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