Visualization of implicit surfaces

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 89-107

  Balsys, Ronald J ^a   Suffern, Kevin G ^b  

^a CQ University Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CURVE FITTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; VISUALIZATION;

IMPLICIT SURFACES; POLYGONS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0035251064     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(00)00110-2     Document Type: Article

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