DocumentCode
3329227
Title
Interval methods for ray casting implicit surfaces with affine arithmetic
Author
De Cusatis, A. ; De Figueiredo, Luiz Henrique ; Gattass, Marcelo
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
65
Lastpage
71
Abstract
We study the performance of affine arithmetic as a replacement for interval arithmetic in interval methods for ray casting implicit surfaces. Affine arithmetic is a variant of interval arithmetic designed to handle the dependency problem, and which has improved several interval algorithms in computer graphics
Keywords
arithmetic; computational geometry; computer graphics; ray tracing; affine arithmetic; computer graphics; dependency problem; implicit surfaces; interval algorithms; interval methods; ray casting; Algorithm design and analysis; Casting; Computer graphics; Computer science; Digital arithmetic; Image analysis; Image generation; Nonlinear equations; Pixel; Polynomials;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 1999. Proceedings. XII Brazilian Symposium on
Conference_Location
Campinas
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0481-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SIBGRA.1999.805711
Filename
805711
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