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Ray-Tracing Triangular Trimmed Free-Form Surfaces

W. Stuerzlinger

1998 · DOI: 10.1109/2945.722295
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 19 Citations

TLDR

This paper presents a new approach to rendering triangular algebraic free-form surfaces, where an irregular adaptive subdivision is constructed to quickly eliminate all parts outside the trimming curve from consideration during rendering.