Ray tracing of spline surfaces: Bézier clipping, Chebyshev boxing, and bounding volume hierarchy - A critical comparison with new results

Visual Computer

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 265-282

  Campagna, Swen ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^a   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ray tracing; Spline surfaces; Surface rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RAY PATCH INTERSECTION (RPI) PROBLEM; RAY TRACING; SPLINE SURFACES; SURFACE RENDERING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031207061     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003710050103     Document Type: Article

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