An object-oriented approach to the solid modeling of empirical data

Author

Sabella, Paolo ; Carlbom, Ingrid

Author_Institution

Sun Microsyst., Mountain View, CA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

5

fYear

1989

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

35

Abstract

An object-oriented approach to the construction, manipulation, and display of complex geometric models of oil reservoirs is described. The authors have extended the traditional constructive solid geometry modeling techniques to accommodate the requirements for reservoir models. Both the user interface and the model building are implemented in Strobe, an object-oriented extension to Interlisp. The geometric model is specified through a CSG-graph editor built using an object-oriented toolkit for graphical interfaces. This editor proves to be an invaluable tool with which to build, maintain and manipulate large, complicated geometric models.<>

Keywords

computational geometry; engineering graphics; geophysics computing; mining; object-oriented programming; oil technology; solid modelling; CSG-graph editor; Interlisp; Strobe; complex geometric models; complicated geometric models; empirical data; graphical interfaces; model building; object-oriented approach; object-oriented extension; object-oriented toolkit; oil reservoirs; reservoir models; traditional constructive solid geometry modeling techniques; user interface; CADCAM; Computer aided manufacturing; Earth; Hydrocarbon reservoirs; Image databases; Object oriented modeling; Petroleum; Solid modeling; Sun; Two dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.35535

Filename

35535