UPDF AI

Real-time rendering of trimmed surfaces

A. Rockwood,Kurt Heaton,Tom Davis

1989 · DOI: 10.1145/74333.74344
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 178 Citations

TLDR

Rational tensor product surfaces, (Bézier, NURBS, Hermite, polynomial, etc.) are rendered in real-time by uniform faceting and can be balanced for optimal implementation on different hardware platforms.