CST: Constructive solid trimming for rendering BReps and CSG

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1004-1014

  Hable, John ^a   Rossignac, Jarek ^b  

^a ELECTRONIC ARTS   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD model visualization; CSG expressions for trimmed faces; GPU support for CSG rendering

Indexed keywords

CAD MODEL VISUALIZATION; CONSTRUCTIVE SOLID TRIMMING (CST); CSG EXPRESSIONS FOR TRIMMED FACES; GPU SUPPORT FOR CSG RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIXELS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

TRIMMING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547434120     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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