Generating and Application of Material Coordinates for Implicit Surfaces

Hans Pederson

University of North Carolina

Abstract

This work presents a new general approach for applying textures onto implicit surfaces. Its main contributions are:

• An improved set of interactive tools for subdividing implicit surfaces into convenient patches.
  
• An efficient and reliable algorithm for deriving parameterizations for these patches.
  
• A new set of useful texturing operations.
  

These results provide a unified representation scheme for a variety of texturing techniques that were previously incompatible, allowing more efficient manipulation, storage, and rendering of textured objects, and a fuller use of current texture mapping hardware.

The paper will have particular appeal to readers with the following interests: applications of computer graphics relying on visual appeal (the entertainment industry, production companies, animators), commercial 3D texturing applications, optimization, and to everyone who likes implicit surfaces, attractive images, and novel ideas.