Some Characterizations of Families of Surfaces Using Functional Equations

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 296-318

  Castillo, Enrique ^a   Iglesias, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Design; Explicit equations; Functional equations; Geometric modeling; I.3.5 Computer Graphics : Computational Geometry and Object Modeling; Implicit equations; Parametric representation; Surface representations; Surfaces; Tensor product surface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEARIZATION;

FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS; IMPLICIT EQUATIONS; PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; SURFACE REPRESENTATIONS; TENSOR PRODUCT SURFACE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031186374     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/256157.256161     Document Type: Article

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