ν-Quaternion Splines for the Smooth Interpolation of Orientations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 224-229

  Nielson, Gregory M ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Inbetweening; Key frame; Quaternion; Splines

Indexed keywords

INBETWEENING; KEY FRAME; QUATERNION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; SPLINES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 1342303337     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.1260774     Document Type: Article

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