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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786949603321

Autore

Wenger Rephael

Titolo

Isosurfaces : geometry, topology, and algorithms / / Rephael Wenger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-429-10186-4

1-4665-7102-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (484 p.)

Classificazione

COM012000COM012040MAT012000

Disciplina

516.3/52

Soggetti

Surfaces

Isogeometric analysis

Three-dimensional imaging - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

An AK Peters Book.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Marching Cubes and Variants; Chapter 3: Dual Contouring; Chapter 4: Multilinear Interpolation; Chapter 5: Isosurface Patch Construction; Chapter 6: Isosurface Generation in 4D; Chapter 7: Interval Volumes; Chapter 8: Data Structures for Faster Isosurface Construction; Chapter 9: Multiresolution Tetrahedal Meshes; Chapter 10: Multiresolution Polyhedral Meshes; Chapter 11: Isovalues; Chapter 12: Contour Trees; Appendix A: Geometry; Appendix B: Topology; Appendix C: Graph Theory; Appendix D: Notation

Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Ever since Lorensen and Cline published their paper on the marching cubes algorithm, isosurfaces have been a standard technique for the visualization of 3D volumetric data. Yet there is no book exclusively devoted to isosurfaces. This book presents the basic algorithms for isosurface construction and gives a rigorous mathematical perspective to some of the algorithms and results. It offers a solid introduction to research in this area as well as an organized overview of the various algorithms associated with isosurfaces--



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826115203321

Autore

Wick Alexis <1981->

Titolo

The Red Sea : in search of lost space / / Alexis Wick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-520-96126-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

909.096533

Soggetti

HISTORY / World

Red Sea Region History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction. History at Sea: Space and the Other -- 1. The Place in the Middle: A Geohistory of the Red Sea -- 2. Thalassology alla Turca: Six Theses on the Philosophy of History -- 3. Self-Portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea, June 21, 1777 -- 4. The Scientific Invention of the Red Sea -- 5. Thalassomania: Modernity and the Sea -- Conclusion. Rigging the Historian's Craft : For an Epistemology of Composition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor. In capturing this heretofore lost space, it also presents a critical, conceptual history of the sea, leading the reader into the heart of Eurocentrism. The Sea, it is shown, is a vital element of the modern philosophy of history. Alexis Wick is not satisfied with this inclusion of the Red Sea into history and attendant critique of Eurocentrism. Contrapuntally, he explores how the world and the sea were imagined differently before imperial European hegemony. Searching for the lost



space of Ottoman visions of the sea, The Red Sea makes a deeper argument about the discipline of history and the historian's craft.