Implicit Methods for Geometry Creation
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications
- Vol. 08 (05n06) , 509-536
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218195998000266
Abstract
In this paper, we briefly review the existing direct implicit geometry generation methods, which include creation of blending surfaces, a limited family of sweeps, and reconstruction of solid geometry from a sample set of surface data points. A broader approach is presented, utilizing the properties of the graph of the implicit defining function, to systematically construct swept solids and perform morphing between sections by implicit methods.Keywords
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