Efficient computation of a simplified medial axis

Proceedings of the Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 96-107

  Foskey, Mark ^a   Lin, Ming C ^b   Manocha, Dinesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance field; Medial axis

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

MEDIAL AXIS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0038041351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/781606.781623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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