Graphics Gems V (IBM Version)

III.6

Generic Implementation of Axial Deformation Techniques

Blanc Carole,     Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) Talence, France. E-mail address: [e-mail]

Introduction

Global deformation techniques were first introduced to extend the set of primitives that may be used in constructive solid modeling ( Barr 1984, Sederberg and Parry 1986). In fact, these techniques are more general and have been consequently adapted to tessellated surfaces or parametric patches as well. This gem proposes a generic implementation of several of these global deformation techniques. The term “generic” focuses on the fact that the implementation depends neither on a given geometric model for surfaces nor on specific data ...