Uses Affine Arithemtic for fast and reliable enumeration of impliicit surfaces.
Abstract: We discuss adaptive enumeration and rendering methods for implicit surfaces, using octrees computed with affine arithmetic, a new tool for range analysis. Affine arithmetic is similar to standard interval arithmetic, but takes into account correlations between operands and sub-formulas, generally providing much tighter bounds for the computed quantities. The resulting octrees are accordingly much smaller, and the rendering faster. Keywords: Cellular models; Interval arithmetic; Affine... (Update)
.... 93 [2] as a tool for validated numerics [20] Since then, AA has been applied to the robust solution of several graphics problems [4,6,7,11,12], where it has successfully replaced interval arithmetic [16] In AA, a quantity x is represented as an affine form, x = x 0 x...
.... one of these tools, and its use in interval methods has resulted in faster algorithms for several problems in computer graphics [6, 5, 16, 15, 4]. A natural next step is to use affine arithmetic instead of interval arithmetic in the global processing algorithms we have...
L. H. de Figueiredo and J. Stolfi. Adaptive enumeration of implicit surfaces with affine arithmetic. Computer Graphics Forum, 15(5):287--296, 1996. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/article/defigueiredo96adaptive.html More
@article{ defigueiredo96adaptive,
author = "Luiz Henrique {de Figueiredo} and Jorge Stolfi",
title = "Adaptive Enumeration of Implicit Surfaces with Affine Arithmetic",
journal = "Computer Graphics Forum",
volume = "15",
number = "5",
pages = "287--296",
year = "1996",
url = "citeseer.nj.nec.com/article/defigueiredo96adaptive.html" }