Visualizing a sphere eversion

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 509-515

  Francis, George ^a   Sullivan, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boy surface; Immersions; Morin surface; Regular homotopy; Sphere eversion; The CAVE; Visualization; Willmore energy

Indexed keywords

BOY SURFACE; IMMERSIONS; MORIN SURFACE; REGULAR HOMOTOPY; SPHERE EVERSION; THE CAVE; WILLMORE ENERGY;

ANIMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLASS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPHERES; THEOREM PROVING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 4344637163     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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