SURFED - An Interactive Editor for Free-Form Surfaces,

Abstract

An editor is described for creating and modifying free-form surfaces. a Modular system was developed in order to provide the researchers with a facility for communicating design ideas and new mathematical forms through an interactive graphical interface to a computer-based model. To achieve this it was necessary to invent a new graphical construct called a 'spider' for inputting 3-dimensional parameters. This experimental system has the essential features of a large-scale implementation, with the capability of utilizing many new surface forms that have not yet been tried in actual applications. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA073424

Entities

People

  • Frank F. Little
  • Gary J. Herron
  • R. Peter Dube
  • Richard F. Riesenfeld

Organizations

  • University of Utah

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Graphics
  • Host Computers
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Instructions
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Research Facilities
  • Spiders
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science