Microcomputer in Cell and Neurobiology Research
Microcomputer in Cell and Neurobiology Research
Hidden surface removal using polygon area sorting
SIGGRAPH '77 Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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The use of computer graphics to study the three-dimensional structure of tissues within an organism such as a human is considered. A system called Sterecon, which uses stereo views of thick sections of tissues and a high-voltage electron microscope, is described. Contours of structures are traced in stereo and entered into a graphics database. Using thick sections decreases the work by ten- to twenty-fold. The database can be manipulated to display cellular organization using various graphics representations.