Topology simplification for polygonal virtual environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-144

  El Sana, Jihad ^a   Varshney, Amitabh ^a  

^a Stony Brook   (United States)

Author keywords

1.3.3 computer graphics ; Computational geometry and object modeling curve; Cr categories and subject descriptors; Picture image generation display algorithms; 1.3.5 computer graphics ; Surface

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

DISPLAY ALGORITHMS; HIERARCHICAL APPROXIMATION; SHAPE APPROXIMATION;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 0032047719     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.694955     Document Type: Article

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