A simple approach to 3D object metamorphosis

Author

Korfiatis, Ioannis ; Paker, Yakup

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Queen Mary & Westfield Coll., London, UK

fYear

1997

fDate

27-29 Aug 1997

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

37

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8076-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1997.626484

Filename

626484