Fast isosurface generation using the volume thinning algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 32-46

  Itoh, Takayuki ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Yasushi ^a,c   Koyamada, Koji ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extrema skeleton; Extremum points; Isosurface; Lattice classification; Volume thinning

Indexed keywords

EXTREMA SKELETON; ISOSURFACING ALGORITHMS; LATTICE CLASSIFICATION; VOLUME THINNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0035039473     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.910819     Document Type: Article

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