INCREMENTAL METHODS FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Abstract

This report is concerned with incremental methods for computer graphics. The application of the incremental approach to some advanced problems in computer graphics is discussed and demonstrated. In Section II, the problem of fast curve generation and display is discussed. This section uses the mathematical approach to curves as a perspective projection of polynomial-curves in higher-dimensional spaces. Section III, also discusses a fast generation of curves, but using another mathematical approach, the linear-differences method, only two-dimensional curves are discussed. Section IV, shows how to make the Warnock algorithm, for hidden lines elimination, incremental. Section V, discusses the generation of half-tone images, in real time. Section VI, discusses an incremental method for finding the intersection of given line segments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0694550

Entities

People

  • Dan Cohen

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computations
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Equations
  • Geometric Forms
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Lines (Geometry)
  • Mathematics
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Sequences
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)

Technology Areas

  • Space