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- From: kawai@kwlab.osakac.ac.jp (Toshiyuki KAWAI)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Meta Balls
- Keywords: meta balls, blob, implicit surface, soft object
- Message-ID: <5047@kwlab.osakac.ac.jp>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:23:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.140016.28298@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> <BxGJC4.11B.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan
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- In article <BxGJC4.11B.1@cs.cmu.edu>, ph+@cs.cmu.edu (Paul Heckbert) writes:
- > Shortly thereafter, people at Osaka University and at Toyo Links in Japan
- > began using blobby models also. They called theirs "metaballs"
-
- > I don't know of any papers by the Japanese on their blobby modeling
- > work, which is too bad, because they have probably pushed the technique
- > further than anyone.
-
- Several years ago, when I was a graduate student, once we tried
- to submit a English one, but ...
-
- Here is a Japanese one:
- H. Nishimura, M. Hirai, T. Kawai, T. Kawata, I. Shirakawa and K. Omura,
- "Object Modeling by Distribution Function and a Method of Image Generation",
- Trans. IECE Japan part D, Vol.J68-D, No.4, pp.718-725, 1985.
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- Osaka Electro-Communication Univ.
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