PERSYS: A Collection of FORTRAN Subroutines to Produce Perspective Views of Data Surfaces Defined on Rectangular Grids.

Abstract

The PERSYS routines produce coordinate pairs for the straightline vectors forming a two-dimensional view of a three-dimensional surface. Portions of the surface which are not visible are not drawn. The routines operate on user-supplied samples of the x, y, and z coordinates of the surface to be drawn. To reduce processing time, the routines assume that the data samples are available on a rectangular grid; surfaces represented by randomly scattered points cannot be directly processed by PERSYS. The routines are device-independent in the sense that at execution time, the user must supply the names of subroutines that PERSYS can call to dispose of the coordinate pairs describing the two-dimensional view.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA030152

Entities

People

  • Gerald N. Cederquist

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Geometry
  • Grids
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Properties
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

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