Direct manipulation of surfaces using NURBS-based free-form deformations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn 1999-January, Issue , 1999, Pages 238-243

  Noble, Robert A ^a   Clapworthy, Gordon J ^b  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free form deformation; Geometric modelling; NURBS; Parametric surfaces; Sculpting

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

FREE-FORM DEFORMATION; GEOMETRIC MODELLING; NURBS; PARAMETRIC SURFACES; SCULPTING;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 84946021537     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.1999.781565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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