Deformable surface techniques for field visualization

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages C109-C116

  Sadarjoen, I Ari ^a   Post, Frits H ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deformable surface; Feature extraction; Scientific visualization; Surface extraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VECTORS; VISUALIZATION;

DISPLACEMENT CRITERION; MESH REFINEMENT; POLYGONAL SURFACE; SURFACE EXTRACTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0031553032     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.00147     Document Type: Article

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