BibTex
@inproceedings{Sloan:1987:10.1145/29933.30869,
author = {Sloan, Kenneth and Painter, James},
title = {From contours to surfaces: testbed and initial results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface},
series = {GI + CHI 1987},
year = {1987},
issn = {0713-5425},
isbn = {0-89791-213-6},
location = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
pages = {115--120},
numpages = {6},
doi = {10.1145/29933.30869},
acmdoi = {10.1145/29933.30869},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the problem of reconstructing the surface of three-dimensional objects, given a collection of planar contours representing cross-sections through the objects. This is an important problem, with applications in clinical medicine, bio-medical research and instruction, and industrial inspection. Current solutions to this problem have raised interesting theoretical questions about search techniques and the exploitation of domain-specific aspects of such search problems. In this paper, we survey known reconstruction techniques, describe a testbed for evaluating these techniques and present an improvement on the simple divide-and-conquer method analyzed by Fuchs, Kedem and Uselton [5].