Homotopy-preserving medial axis simplification

International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 423-451

  Sud, Avneesh ^a   Foskey, Mark ^b   Manocha, Dinesh ^a  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Homotopy; Medial axis; Separation angle; Simplification; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249003376     PISSN: 02181959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218195907002434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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