Curve-Skeleton Properties, Applications, and Algorithms

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 530 - 548
• Main Authors: Cornea, Nicu D., Silver, Deborah, Min, Patrick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.05.2007; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animation; Computational modeling; Extraction; Navigation; Representations; Tasks; Taxonomy; Three dimensional; Three-dimensional displays; Visualization

Curve-skeletons are thinned 1D representations of 3D objects useful for many visualization tasks including virtual navigation, reduced-model formulation, visualization improvement, animation, etc. There are many algorithms in the literature describing extraction methodologies for different applicati...