Variational Modeling Methods for Visualization
HANS HAGEN and INGRID HOTZ, University of Kaiserslautern
19.1 Introduction
Variational modeling techniques are powerful tools for free-form modeling in CAD/CAM applications. Some of the basic principles are carrying over to scientific visualization. Others have to be modified and some totally new methods have been developed over the last couple of years. This chapter gives an extended survey of this area.
Surfaces and solids designed in a computer graphics environment have many applications in modeling, animation, and visualization. We concentrate in this chapter mainly on the visualization part. We start with a section on basics from differential geometry, which are essential for any ...
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