SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
Shape complexity has recently received attention from different fields, such as computer vision and psychology. In this paper, integral geometry and information theory tools are ...
SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
Gotsman et al. (SIGGRAPH 2003) presented the first method to generate a provably bijective parameterization of a closed genus-0 manifold mesh to the unit sphere. This involves the...
SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper considers computation of visibility for twodimensional shapes whose boundaries are C1 continuous curves. We assume we are given a one-parameter family of candidate view...
SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
Distance fields provide an implicit representation of shape that has advantages in many application areas; in this overview, we focus on their use in digital design. Distance fi...
SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
We present an approach to hierarchically encode the topology of functions over triangulated surfaces. We describe the topology of a function by its Morse-Smale complex, a well kno...
SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
Creating surfaces with intricate small-scale features (microgeometry) and detail is an important task in geometric modeling and computer graphics. We present a model processing me...
SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
— The ability to identify similarities between shapes is important for applications such as medical diagnosis, object registration and alignment, and shape retrieval. In this pap...
SMI
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
A tight estimate on the maximum distance between a subdivision surface and its linear approximation is introduced to guide adaptive subdivision with guaranteed accuracy.