Monthly Archives: August 2012

What is a solid?

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

In this post, I am going to go into a bit of a mathematical digression about the fundamentals of solid modeling.  In a nutshell, solid modeling is the study of digital representations of physical shapes.  This was a hot topic … Continue reading →

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Simplifying Isosurfaces (Part 2)

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

To briefly recap, our goal is to render large volumetric environments.  For the sake of both efficiency and image quality, we want to introduce some form of level of detail simplification for distant geometry.  Last time, we discussed two general … Continue reading →

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