• DocumentCode
    1540613
  • Title

    The discrete analytical hyperspheres

  • Author

    Andres, Eric ; Jacob, Marie-Andrée

  • Author_Institution
    Roswell Park Cancer Inst., Buffalo, NY, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    75
  • Lastpage
    86
  • Abstract
    An analytical definition of a discrete hypersphere with arbitrary center, radius, and thickness in dimension n is introduced. The new discrete hypersphere is called a discrete analytical hypersphere. The hypersphere has important original properties including exact point localization, space tiling, k-separation, etc. These properties are almost obvious with this new discrete analytical definition contrary to the classical approaches based on digitization schemes. The analytically defined circle is compared to Pham´s (1992) classically defined circle. Efficient incremental circle and hypersphere generation algorithms are provided
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; computer graphics; analytically defined circle; arbitrary center; arbitrary radius; arbitrary thickness; discrete analytical hyperspheres; efficient incremental circle generation algorithms; efficient incremental hypersphere generation algorithms; exact point localization; k-separation; space tiling; Algorithm design and analysis; Analytical models; Biomedical imaging; Computational modeling; Equations; Focusing; Jacobian matrices; Ray tracing; Surgery; Visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1077-2626
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/2945.582354
  • Filename
    582354