Approximating normals for marching cubes applied to locally supported isosurfaces

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 459-466

  Nielson, Gregory M ^a   Huang, Adam ^a   Sylvester, Steve ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation; Gouraud shading; Isosurface; Marching cubes; Normal vectors; Topology; Triangular mesh

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); TOPOLOGY; VECTORS; VISUALIZATION;

ISOSURFACES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036448588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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