Cone visibility decomposition of freeform surfaces

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 315-320

  Elber, Gershon ^a,b,c   Zussman, Eyal ^a,d,e  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c IEEE   (Israel)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e ASME   (China)

Author keywords

Gauss map; Laser scan; Symbolic computation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCANNING; SET THEORY; SURFACES; VISIBILITY;

CONE VISIBILITY DECOMPOSITION; GAUSS MAP; LASER SCAN; SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0032048426     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-4485(97)00077-8     Document Type: Article

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