Solving point and plane vs. orthogonal polyhedra using the extreme vertices model (EVM)

In a previous work, Orthogonal Polyhedra (OP) were proposed as geometric bounds in CSG. Primitives in the CSG model were approximated by their respective bounding boxes. The polyhedrical bound for the CSG object was obtained by applying the corresponding Boolean Algebra to those boxes. Also in that...

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Autores: Aguilera, Antonio, Ayala Vallespí, M. Dolors|||0000-0003-4931-0467
Formato: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:1997
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/83993
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/83993
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Orthogonal polyhedra
OP
CSG
Extreme vertices model
EVM
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Resumo:In a previous work, Orthogonal Polyhedra (OP) were proposed as geometric bounds in CSG. Primitives in the CSG model were approximated by their respective bounding boxes. The polyhedrical bound for the CSG object was obtained by applying the corresponding Boolean Algebra to those boxes. Also in that paper, a specific and very concise model for representing and handling OP was presented: the Extreme Vertices Model (EVM). The EVM allows simple and robust algorithms for performing the most usual and demanding tasks. This paper deals with the classification of point, and plane vs. OP. These operations can be done on the EVM in linear time. Furthermore, a very important feature of EVM algorithms is that, even though their input data (i.e., vertices' coordinates) can be floating-point values, no time-consuming floating-point arithmetic is ever performed (except when explicitly noted), so there are absolutely no propagation errors due to partial results (which do not exist). All results are obtained by just classifying and selecting vertices' coordinates of the initial data.