An accelerated triangulation method for computing the skeletons of free-form solid models

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-19

  Turkiyyah, George M ^a   Storti, Duane W ^a   Ganter, Mark ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   Vimawala, Munikumar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Faculty of Engineering Tech and Research   (India)

Author keywords

Delaunay triangulation; Implicit solid models; Medial axis; Skeleton generation; Surface curvature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BODIES OF REVOLUTION; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; FREE FORM SOLID MODELS; SKELETON GENERATION; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0030833528     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(96)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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