On floating-point normal vectors

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1405-1409

  Meyer, Quirin ^a   Süßmuth, Jochen ^a   Sußner, Gerd ^b   Stamminger, Marc ^a   Greiner, Günther ^a  

^a Computer Graphics Group Erlangen ^*  (Germany)

^b Realtime Technology AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; VECTORS;

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; FLOATING POINTS; NORMAL VECTOR; OPTIMAL DISCRETIZATION; SINGLE PRECISION;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 77955966946     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01737.x     Document Type: Article

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