Direct and fast ray tracing of NURBS surfaces

RT'06: IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 161-168

  Abert, Oliver ^a   Geimer, Markus ^b   Müller, Stefan ^a  

^a France   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free form surfaces; Interactive rendering; NURBS; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

FREE FORM SURFACES; INTERACTIVE RENDERING; INTERSECTION ALGORITHM;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 42549139254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RT.2006.280227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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