Manipulating, deforming and animating sampled object representations

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 824-852

  Chen, M ^c   Correa, C ^b   Islam, S ^c   Jones, M W ^c   Shen, P Y ^a   Silver, D ^b   Walton, S J ^c   Willis, P J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animation; Deformation; Images; Manipulation; Point clouds; Sampled object representations; Surgical simulation; Volume datasets; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; SEMANTICS;

IMAGES MANIPULATION; POINT CLOUDS; SAMPLED OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS; SURGICAL SIMULATION; VOLUME DATASETS; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 37349110762     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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