Robust and numerically stable Bézier clipping method for ray tracing NURBS surfaces

Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, SCCG 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 127-135

  Efremov, Alexander ^a   Havran, Vlastimil ^a   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

B zier clipping method; NURBS surface; Rational B zier surface; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LIMITERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAY TRACING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BEZIER CLIPPING METHOD; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; MOVIES; RATIONAL BEZIER SURFACE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33749039689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1090122.1090144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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