Stable morse decompositions for piecewise constant vector fields on surfaces

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 851-860

  Szymczak, Andrzej ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Computational Geometry and Object Modeling Geometric algorithms languages and systems; I.3.5 Computer Graphics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MODELING LANGUAGES; SET THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

DESCRIPTORS; GEOMETRIC ALGORITHM; GRAPH REPRESENTATION; I.3.5 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]; MORSE DECOMPOSITION; PIECE-WISE CONSTANTS; TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES; TRANSITION GRAPHS;

VECTORS;

EID: 84875621870     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01934.x     Document Type: Article

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