Congratulations and thank you for reading this book! You hold in your hand perhaps the first
book solely written on mechanical reverse engineering from an industry perspective. The …

A method for computing isovalue or contour surfaces of a trivariate function is discussed.
The input data are values of the trivariate function. F [?][?] k, at the cuberille grid points (x [?] …

Sculptured Surface Machining (SSM) plays a vital role in the process of bringing new
products to the market place. A great variety of products, from automotive body-panels to …

Given a surface triangulation in three-dimensional space, an algorithm is developed to
iteratively remove triangles from the triangulation. An underlying parametric or implicit …

This book is entirely about triangulations. With emphasis on computational issues, we
present the basic theory necessary to construct and manipulate triangulations. In particular …

Given a set of data points in R2 and corresponding data values, it is clear that the quality of a
piecewise linear interpolation over triangles depends on the specific triangulation of the data …

There is a growing interest for the problem of reconslructing thc shape of an object from
multiple range images. Several methods, based on heuristics, have been described in the …

We describe recent extensions and improvements to the advancing front grid generation
technique. These improvements target a range of applicability, speed and user friendliness …

This paper describes an application of error-based triangulation to very large sets of three-
dimensional (3D) data. The algorithm is suitable for processing data collected by machine …

This article provides a historical account of the major developments in the area of curves
and surfaces as they entered the area of CAGD–Computer Aided Geometric Design–until …