Incremental computation of planar maps

  • Authors:
  • M. Gangnet;J.-C. Hervé;T. Pudet;J.-M. van Thong

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Equipment Corporation, Paris Research Laboratory, Rueil-Malmaison, France;Digital Equipment Corporation, Paris Research Laboratory, Rueil-Malmaison, France;Digital Equipment Corporation, Paris Research Laboratory, Rueil-Malmaison, France;Digital Equipment Corporation, Paris Research Laboratory, Rueil-Malmaison, France

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

A planar map is a figure formed by a set of intersecting lines and curves. Such an object captures both the geometrical and the topological information implicitly defined by the data. In the context of 2D drawing it provides a new interaction paradigm, map sketching, for editing graphic shapes.To build a planar map, one must compute curve intersections and deduce from them the map they define. The computed topology must be consistent with the underlying geometry. Robustness of geometric computations is a key issue in this process. We present a robust solution to Bézier curve intersection that uses exact forward differencing and bounded rational arithmetic. Then, we describe data structure and algorithms to support incremental insertion of Bézier curves in a planar map. A prototype illustration tool using this method is also discussed.