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Functions for manipulating objects are essential for scientific visualization systems because it is necessary to handle all related data efficiently and to generate objects satisfying given conditions to objects. If operations to compare objects both topologically and geometrically when visualizing the real world, we can model objects more credibly and validly. We introduce comparative operations for this purpose. They are based on a boundary representation incorporating the concept of connected component as a separate geometric entity. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics for all geometric entities which compose objects are analyzed during comparison. The necessary algorithms for performing comparative operations have been developed, and implemented on a commercial solid modeler.
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Lee, M.W., Satoh, T., Kunii, T.L. (1991). Comparative Operations in Solid Modeling. In: Encarnação, J.L., Grinstein, G.G. (eds) Workstations for Experiments. IFIP Series on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75903-1_8
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