Shading: Fitting a smooth intensity surface

DOI10.1016/0010-4485(95)99796-BMaRDI QIDQ1902422zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael R. Kappel

Publication date 19 March 1996

Published in CAD. Computer-Aided Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-4485(95)99796-B

zbMATH Keywords

computational geometryfittinggeometric modelsGourand shading methodintensity functionsPhong lighting modelPowell-Sabin splitsmooth intensity surfacetriangular patches

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical smoothing, curve fitting (65D10) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18)

Review text

The paper describes a very good alternative to the standard Gourand shading method for geometric models represented by polyhedral meshes with planar faces. Gourand shading leads to images whose intensity varies in a \(C^0\) fashion, i.e., intensities are the same along shared edges in the model but they are not \(C^1\) (derivative) continuous. The author uses the Powell-Sabin split for triangular meshes to construct intensity functions that are \(C^1\) continuous. This results in images with greatly reduced Mach band effects along the boundary edges in the mesh.

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