Visibility of surfaces via differential geometry

boundaries boundary curves Geometric surface design graphic outputs hidden lines sight indices silhouettes surface intersections surface rendering visibility

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Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Computer science aspects of computer-aided design (68U07)

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Geometric surface design has been developed in various branches, especially in the field of approximation theory. The traditional procedures start with discretizations of the surface at an early stage. The method presented by the author may be considered as an alternative and supplement to this, especially when the surfaces come in complicated analytic representations. By using tools of differential geometry one develops a theory for studying the attributes of surfaces like boundaries, silhouettes and intersections. His results are based on the new concept of `sight indices' which control the change of coverings dynamically along arbitrary given curves. The method used is entirely curve oriented, so suitable for most graphic outputs, in particular for plotters.

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