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International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2003
Ray Tracing Point Set Surfaces
Seoul , Korea
May 12-May 15
ISBN: 0-7695-1909-1
Anders Adamson, TU Darmstadt, GRIS
Marc Alexa, TU Darmstadt, GRIS
Point set surfaces (PSS) are a smooth manifold surface approximation from a set of sample points. The surface definition is based on a projection operation that constructs local polynomial approximations and respects a minimum feature size. We present techniques for ray tracing PSSs. For the computation of ray-surface intersection the properties of the projection operation are exploited: The surface is enclosed by a union of minimum feature size spheres. A ray is intersected with the spheres first and inside the spheres with local polynomial approximations. Our results show that 2-3 projections are sufficient to accurately intersect a ray with the surface.
Index Terms:
ray tracing, point sampled geometry, point set surfaces
Citation:
Anders Adamson, Marc Alexa, "Ray Tracing Point Set Surfaces," smi, pp.272, International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2003, 2003
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