Inspired by the drawings of "impossible" objects by artists such as M.C. Escher, we describe a mathematical theory which captures some of the underlying principles of their work. Using this theory, we show how impossible ...

This work explores how three techniques for defining and representing curves and surfaces can be related efficiently. The techniques are subdivision, least-squares data fitting, and wavelets. We show how least-squares data ...

Virtual reality systems provide realistic look and feel by seamlessly integrating three-dimensional input and output devices. One software architecture approach to constructing such systems is to distribute the application ...

Books reviewed:Arlov, Laura. GUI Design for DummiesLeopoldseder, Hannes and Schopf, Christine (Editors). Cyberarts98Lorentz, H. A. On the Theory of the Reflection and Refraction of LightVince, John. Essential Virtual Reality ...

VisSym '99: Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization6th Eurographics Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems â 99

This paper describes a number of design issues and programming paradigms that affect the development of Cgal, the computational geometry algorithms library. Genericity of the library is achieved by concepts such as templates, ...