Scattering, Natural Surfaces, and Fractals

Scattering, Natural Surfaces, and Fractals

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-289

  Franceschetti, Giorgio ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-265655-2.X5000-4     Document Type: Book

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