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CAD
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
Curves on surfaces play an important role in computer-aided geometric design. Because of the considerably high degree of exact curves on surfaces, approximation algorithms are pre...
CAD
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
1999
Springer
This paper presents algorithms for computing offsets of NURBS curves and surfaces. The basic approach consists of four steps: (1) recognition of special curves and surfaces; (2) s...
ITICSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper describes a knowledge unit and the use of a software tool, DesignMentor, for teaching a very challenging topic in computer graphics and visualization, namely: curve and...
TCS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
This paper studies shapes (curves and surfaces) which can be described by (piecewise) polynomial support functions. The class of these shapes is closed under convolutions, offsett...
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2002
IEEE
An active contour model for parametric curve and surface approximation is presented. The active curve or surface adapts to the model shape to be approximated in an optimization al...