Modeling Complex Shapes

2/7/2001


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Modeling Complex Shapes

Polygon Meshes

How Many Polygons to Use?

A File Format for Polygon Models: OBJ

Frontfacing / Backfacing

Normals and Plane Equations

Polygon Models in OpenGL

Data Structures for Polygon Meshes

What Implicit Functions are Good For

Surfaces from Implicit Functions

Blobby Models

How to draw implicit surfaces?

Isosurfaces of Simulated Tornado

Sets of Points, Surfaces and Solids

Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)

A CSG Train

Negative Objects

Set Operations

Implicit Functions for Booleans

You can try this at home

3-D Object Representation

Generalized Cylinders

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