Figure 1: Triangulation of a blending surface of three intersecting cylinders
Erich Hartmann
(The Visual Computer 14, 95-108)
Abstract:
The idea of
numerical implicitization allows to treat all surfaces which can
be described by collections of equations, especially the parametric ones,
in a uniform way as implicit surfaces. So it suffices to have a marching
method for the triangulation of implicit surfaces, which is introduced.
The method produces even for sets of intersecting surface
patches coherent nets of triangles.
Keywords: triangulation, marching method, numerical implicitization, parametric surface, implicit surface, offset surface, blend surface.
Figure 1: Triangulation of a blending surface of three intersecting cylinders