Cutting and stitching: Converting sets of polygons to manifold surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 136-151

  Guéziec, André ^a,b   Taubin, Gabriel ^a,c   Lazarus, Francis ^d   Horn, Bill ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b IBM TJ Watson Research Center ^*  (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Cutting; Manifold; Polygonal surface; Stitching; Topological singularities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

MANIFOLD SURFACES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0035301888     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.928166     Document Type: Article

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