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    • Automatic Reconstruction of Buildings from Stereoscopic Image Sequences 

      Koch, Reinhard (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      A vision-based 3-D scene analysis system is described that is capable to model complex real-world scenes like streets and buildings automatically from stereoscopic image pairs. Input to the system is a sequence of stereoscopic ...
    • Pseudo-Satellitefilm Using Fractal Clouds to Enhance Animated Weather Forecasting 

      Sakas, Georgios; Schroder, Florian; Koppert, Hans-Joachim (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      We have developed a system enabling the National German Meteorological Office to generate pseudo-satellite images and video sequences based on their weather forecasting simulation data. With our system meteorologists can ...
    • GKS-9x: Some Implementation Considerations 

      Damnjanovic, L.B.; Duce, D.A.; Robinson, S.K. (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      The Graphical Kernel System (GKS) was published as an ISO standard for computer graphics programming in August 1985. GKS is now undergoing revision in ISO/IEC and at the time of writing the text of the Draft International ...
    • A 4D Ray Tracing 

      Maurel, Herve; Duthen, Yves; Caubet, Rene (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      We are going to present a survey of techniques using temporal coherence in between frames to render animation sequences with ray tracing. A new method using temporal coherence in the ray space (lightpath of rays) is proposed. ...
    • DaScript3D Integrating 3D Graphics in a Page Description Language 

      Samara, Veronika (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      Despite the necessity of producing high-quality documents comprising all aspects of electronic publishing, there is still no system available that can generate and integrate two-dimensional (2D) graphics, three-dimensional ...
    • The Cone of Normals Technique for Fast Processing of Curved Patches 

      Shirmun, Leon A.; Abi-Ezzi, Salim S. (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      The cone of normals technique for curved surface patches allows to perform various quick tests at the patch level such as front- or backfacing test, light influence test, and existence of silhouette edges test. For a given ...
    • Accurate and Consistent Reconstruction of Illumination Functions Using Structured Sampling 

      Drettakis, George; Fiume, Eugene (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      The study of common classes of diffuse emitters, such as planar convex polygons, reveals several interesting properties of the functions of illumination these emitters cast on receiver surfaces. Some properties, such as ...
    • Direct 3D Manipulation Techniques for Interactive Constraint-based Solid Modelling 

      Fa, Mingxian; Fernando, Terrence; Dew, Peter M. (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      This paper presents a novel constraint-based 3D manipulation approach to interactive constraint-based solid modelling. This approach employs a constraint recognition process to automatically recognise assembly relationships ...
    • Extracting contour lines from a hierarchical surface model 

      De Floriani, Leila; Mirra, Daniela; Puppo, Enrico (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      The Hierarchical Triangulated Irregular Network (HTIN) is a structure for representing 2?-dimensional surfaces at different levels of detail through piecewise-linear approximations based on triangulations of the surface ...
    • A Rendering Algorithm for Discrete Volume Density Objects 

      Blasi, Philippe; Le Saec, Bertrand; Schlick, Christophe (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      We present a new algorithm for simulating the effect of light travelling through volume objects. Such objects (haze, fog, clouds.) are usually modelized by voxel grids which define their density distribution in a discrete ...
    • DIGIS A Graphical User Interface Design Environment for Non-Programmers 

      de Bruin, Hans; Bouwman, Peter; van den Bos, Jan (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      DIGIS (Direct Interactive Generation of Interactive Systems) is a graphical UI design environment for non-programmers that facilitates the design of all aspects of a UI with direct manipulation techniques. DIGIS is based ...
    • An Integrated System for Modeling, Animating and Rendering Hair 

      Daldegan, Agnes; Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat; Kurihara, Tsuneya; Thalmann, Daniel (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      There are basically four problems to solve in order to produce realistic animated synthetic actors with hair: hair modeling and creation, hair motion, collision detection and hair rendering. This paper describes a complete ...
    • A Declarative Design Method for 3D Scene Sketch Modeling 

      Donikian, Stephane; Hegron, Gerard (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      In this paper, we present a dynamic model associated with an intelligent CAD system aiming at the modeling of an architectural scene sketch. Our design methodology has been developed to simulate the process of a user who ...
    • Modeling of Skylight and Rendering of Outdoor Scenes 

      Tadamura, Katsumi; Nakamae, Eihachiro; Kaneda, Kazufumi; Baba, Masashi; Yamashita, Hideo and Nishita, Tomoyuki (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      Photorealistic animated images are extremely effective for pre-evaluating visual impact of city renewal and construction of tall buildings. In order to generate a photorealistic image not only the direct sunlight but also ...
    • A New Paradigm for Geometric Processing 

      Yamaguchi, Fujio; Niizeki, Masatoshi (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      A new paradigm for geometric processing is proposed. The paradigm can be featured by the four key phrases: (1) Totally Four Dimensional Homogeneous Processing, (2) 4 ? 4 Matrix Method and 4 ? 4 Determinant Method, (3) ...
    • Introducing blending operations in feature models 

      Laakko, Timo; Mantyla, Martti (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      We describe the implementation of a blending facility in the context of a feature modelling system where solid and feature-based modelling operations can be utilized in parallel during the design process of a part. The ...
    • Boolean Operations and Spatial Complexity of Face Octrees. 

      Pla-Garcia, Nuria (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      Most of the existing representation schemes of free form surfaces or objects with free form boundary are not capable to compute efficiently boolean operations and other usual geometric interrogations. Classical octrees, ...
    • Parallel 3D Delaunay Triangulation 

      Cignoni, P.; Montani, C.; Perego, R.; Scopigno, R. (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
    • 3D Computational Morphology 

      Veltkamp, Remco C. (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      Computational Morphology is the analysis of form by computational means. This discipline typically uses techniques from Computational Geometry and Computer Aided Geometric Design. The present paper is more specifically ...
    • Updating Polygonizations* 

      Abellanas, M.; Garcia, J.; Hernbandez, G.; Hurtado, F.; Serra, O.; Urrutia, J. (Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1993)
      In this paper we consider polygonizations that are robust when faced with changes in the vertices that are present or in their position. We analyze the dynamic maintenance of different types of polygonizations (monotone, ...