“Contemporary Approaches to Geometry for Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design” by Goldman – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Contemporary Approaches to Geometry for Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design” by Goldman

  • 1988 25 Cover Contemporary Approaches To Geometry For Computer

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    Contemporary Approaches to Geometry for Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design

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Entry Number: 25

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    TOPICS
    • Affine geometry/DeRose
    Affine space
    Affine coordinates
    Affine transformations
    Applications to computer graphics
    Applications to computer aided design
    • Recursive curves and surfaces/Goldman
    Bezier, Polya, and B-Spline curves and surfaces
    Recursive evaluation algorithms
    De Castelijau algorithm
    Neville algorithm
    De Boor algorithm
    Duality
    Specialized hardware
    Probabilistic models
    • Geometric continuity/Barsky
    Parametric continuity
    Beta constraints
    Shape parameters
    Beta-splines
    Nu-splines
    Wilson-Fowler splines
    • Cubic algebraic patches/Sederberg
    Implicit surfaces
    Cubic surfaces
    Tangent continuity
    Parametrizations
    Algorithms
    Geometric modeling

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    Mary Whitton

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    Babbage Institute

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