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- From: ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Meta Balls
- Keywords: meta balls, blob, implicit surface, soft object
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.175754.27151@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:57:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov9.175754.27151
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- >Bloomenthal has discussed techniques for modeling organic forms (trees,
- >leaves, arms) using blobby techniques [Bloomenthal 1991]
- >(though he prefers the term "implicit modeling")...
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- >Meanwhile, in Canada and New Zealand, the Wyvill brothers, and grad
- >students, were doing investigating many of the same ideas...
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- My colleage (Duane Storti) and I have recently been active in what we call
- "Implicit Solid Modeling (ISM)." Basicly, this is implicit modeling with
- various forms of boolean or psuedo-boolean operators. We find the symbolic
- math systems (ala Mma, Maple, Reduce, etc) are a great platform for development
- in ISM. A very simple version of an ISM package was presented in:
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- D.W. Storti, M.A. Ganter,and C. Nevrinceanu, "A Tutorial on Implicit Solid
- Modeling", _The Mathematica Journal_, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1992
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- We believe that ISM is a very nature and teachable system for solid modeling.
- Our current work focuses on ISM object extent determination, ISM collision
- detection and ISM swept solids. ....Mark
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- Mark Ganter/Univ of Washington/Seattle, WA 98195/ganter@u.washington.edu
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