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Web Visualization of Function-Defined Shapes

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Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003 (ICCSA 2003)

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This paper describes how function-based shape modeling can be expanded to web visualization, as well as how web-based visualization can be greatly improved by using the function-based shape modeling technique. We have proposed a function-defined VRML shape node, which allows the content creators to describe any complex models with relatively small functions compared to the large-size polygonal mesh models. These function-defined shapes can be used together with the common VRML shapes. The design, the implementation details, and the application examples of the proposed node are discussed.

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Alexei Sourin & Konstantin Levinski

  2. Creative Technology Ltd., Singapore

    Lai Feng Min

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  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA University of Minessota Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. School of Computer Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  5. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle Montréal, Université de Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

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Sourin, A., Min, L.F., Levinski, K. (2003). Web Visualization of Function-Defined Shapes. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2669. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44842-X_44

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