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Fuzzy Geometric Object Modelling

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Fuzzy Information and Engineering

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Fuzzy geometric object modelling has been one of the fundamental tasks in computer graphics. In this paper, we investigated and developed techniques for modelling fuzzy objects based on fuzzy set theory. With the proposed techniques any conventional geometric objects, such as points, lines, triangles, and curved surfaces can all be easily extended as certain kind of fuzzy sets to represent geometric objects with fuzzy boundaries. In addition, experimental results are presented to demonstrate how 3D fuzzy shapes represented in this way can be rendered efficiently and effectively in multiple passes using shader programs running entirely on programmable GPUs.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

    Qingde Li

  2. Institute of Sciences, Liaoning Engineering Technique University, Fuxin, Liaoning 123000, China

    Sizong Guo

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Li, Q., Guo, S. (2007). Fuzzy Geometric Object Modelling. In: Cao, BY. (eds) Fuzzy Information and Engineering. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71441-5_60

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