Breaklines in Coons surfaces over triangles for the use in terrain modelling

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-54

  Hugentobler, Marco ^a   Schneider, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continuity of slope; Coons patches; Digital terrain modelling; Interpolation; TIN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INTERPOLATION; MODIFICATION;

BOUNDARY CURVES; BREAKLINE VERTICES; COONS;

TOPOLOGY;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; INTERPOLATION; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORK;

EID: 11144289533     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2004.09.006     Document Type: Article

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