Voxelization and fabrication of freeform models

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 65-73

  Lin, F ^a   Seah, H S ^a   Wu, Z ^b   Ma, D ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeform modelling; NURBS; Rapid prototyping; Volume rendering; Voxelization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547951694     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452750701379197     Document Type: Article

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