Ray Tracing Point Set Surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Anders Adamson;Marc Alexa

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SMI '03 Proceedings of the Shape Modeling International 2003
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Point set surfaces (PSS) are a smooth manifold surfaceapproximation from a set of sample points. The surface definitionis based on a projection operation that constructslocal polynomial approximations and respects a minimumfeature size. We present techniques for ray tracing PSSs.For the computation of ray-surface intersection the propertiesof the projection operation are exploited: The surface isenclosed by a union of minimum feature size spheres. A rayis intersected with the spheres first and inside the sphereswith local polynomial approximations. Our results showthat 2-3 projections are sufficient to accurately intersect aray with the surface.