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Building larger objects out of smaller rectangular parallelepipeds may be called a stacking operation. A modeling technique is developed for stacking a given number of parallelepipeds in a predefined arrangement. The technique uses the method of spatial occupancy and takes advantage of the specific properties of the stacking order for obtaining a solid model with hidden lines/surfaces removed. The algorithm uses efficient methods for handling huge databases and large computation time needed for solid modeling on microprocessors.
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Aziz, N.M. (1988). A Hierarchical Model for Spatial Stacking. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) New Trends in Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83492-9_23
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