Title :
A simple approach to 3D object metamorphosis
Author :
Korfiatis, Ioannis ; Paker, Yakup
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Queen Mary & Westfield Coll., London, UK
Abstract :
This paper presents a technique for smoothly blending some special categories of three-dimensional polygonal objects. Polygon blending is usually considered a two-part process: generating vertex correspondences and interpolating between corresponding vertices to create the intermediate polygons. This paper emphasises on the problem of automatic vertex correspondence determination. The proposed algorithm is based on a simple heuristic method for the metamorphosis of closed planar contours
Keywords :
computational geometry; computer animation; interpolation; 3D object metamorphosis; automatic vertex correspondence determination; blending; closed planar contours; heuristic method; intermediate polygons; interpolation; polygon blending; polygonal objects; shape metamorphosis; vertex correspondences; Computer science; Educational institutions; Electrical capacitance tomography; Fourier transforms; Humans; Isosurfaces; Piecewise linear techniques; Shape; Topology; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8076-8
DOI :
10.1109/IV.1997.626484
