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CAD
2005
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Geometric algorithms for rapidly reconfigurable mold manufacturing of free-form objects
This paper presents geometric algorithms for developing a re-configurable tooling system for fabrication of freeform objects. The proposed method involves a mold block, with n fac...
Aditya Kelkar, Rakesh Nagi, Bahattin Koc
CAGD
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
Parametrization of approximate algebraic surfaces by lines
In this paper we present an algorithm for parametrizing approximate algebraic surfaces by lines. The algorithm is applicable to -irreducible algebraic surfaces of degree d having ...
Sonia Pérez-Díaz, Juana Sendra, J. R...
JCC
2002
61views more  JCC 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
A fast pairwise evaluation of molecular surface area
: A fast and general analytical approach was developed for the calculation of the approximate van der Waals and solvent-accessible surface areas. The method is based on three basic...
Vladislav Vasilyev, Enrico O. Purisima
3DPVT
2006
IEEE
158views Visualization» more  3DPVT 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Revealing Significant Medial Structure in Polyhedral Meshes
Medial surfaces are popular representations of 3D objects in vision, graphics and geometric modeling. They capture relevant symmetries and part hierarchies and also allow for deta...
Svetlana Stolpner, Kaleem Siddiqi
STOC
2004
ACM
76views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 7 months ago
Isotopic implicit surface meshing
This paper addresses the problem of piecewise linear approximation of implicit surfaces. We first give a criterion ensuring that the zero-set of a smooth function and the one of a...
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, David Cohen-Steiner, Gert ...