A progressive refinement approach for the visualisation of implicit surfaces

GRAPP 2006 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 26-33

  Gamito, Manuel N ^a   Maddock, Steve C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affine arithmetic; Implicit surface; Progressive refinement; Ray casting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SUBDIVISION; AFFINE ARITHMETIC; DESIGN CYCLE; IMPLICIT FUNCTION; IMPLICIT SURFACES; LOW QUALITIES; PROGRESSIVE REFINEMENT; RANGE ESTIMATION; RAY CASTING; RENDERING APPROACH; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUALISATION;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 74949133892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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