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- From: glassner@parc.xerox.com (Andrew Glassner)
- Subject: Re: Meta Balls
- Message-ID: <glassner.721339138@overture>
- Keywords: meta balls, blob, implicit surface, soft object
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- Organization: Xerox PARC
- Date: 9 Nov 92 19:58:58 GMT
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- ph+@cs.cmu.edu (Paul Heckbert) writes:
- >Shortly thereafter, people at Osaka University and at Toyo Links in Japan
- >began using blobby models also. They called theirs "metaballs"
- >(or, when misspelled, "meatballs").
-
- If you can read Japanese, take a look at the following. If you
- would care to post a brief summary of the technical content to
- the net, those of us who do not speak Japanese would appreciate it.
-
- @ARTICLE{Fujita90,
- author={Takushi Fujita and Katsuhiko Hirota and Kouichi Murakami},
- title={Representation of Splashing Water Using Metaball Model},
- journal={Fujitsu},
- volume={41},
- number={2},
- pages={159-165},
- year={1990},
- note={(in Japanese)}
- }
-
-
- --
- -Andrew (Andrew Glassner - glassner@parc.xerox.com)
-