Silhouette smoothing for real-time rendering of mesh surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 640-652

  Wang, Lu ^a   Tu, Changhe ^a   Wang, Wenping ^b   Meng, Xiangxu ^a   Chan, Bin ^b   Yan, Dongming ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hermite curves; Interpolation; Polygonal mesh; Silhouette smoothing

Indexed keywords

HERMITE CURVES; POLYGONAL MESH; SILHOUETTE SMOOTHING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURVE FITTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTERPOLATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41549127267     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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