A refineable space of smooth spline surfaces of arbitrary topological genus

U Reif - Journal of Approximation Theory, 1997 - Elsevier
It is shown that parametrical smoothness conditions are sufficient for modeling smooth
spline surfaces of arbitrary topology if degenerate surface segments are accepted. In …

An accelerated triangulation method for computing the skeletons of free-form solid models

GM Turkiyyah, DW Storti, M Ganter, H Chen… - Computer-Aided …, 1997 - Elsevier
Shape skeletons are powerful geometric abstractions that provide useful intermediate
representations for a number of geometric operations on solid models including feature …