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  2. Computer representation of surfaces - Wikipedia

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    An open surface with u- and v-flow lines and Z-contours shown. In technical applications of 3D computer graphics such as computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, surfaces are one way of representing objects. The other ways are wireframe (lines and curves) and solids.

  3. Waveform graphics - Wikipedia

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    Waveform graphics were limited, but could still produce useful output when used in conjunction with programs like gnuplot. Waveform graphics is a simple vector graphics system introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) on the VT55 and VT105 terminals in the mid-1970s. It was used to produce graphics output from mainframes and ...

  4. Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis

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    [26] [27] The Laboratory was an enormous influence on the commercial Environmental Systems Research Institute, Esri, founded in 1969 by Jack Dangermond, a landscape architect graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design who had worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory during 1968 and 1969. Scott Morehouse, the development lead for the ...

  5. Scientific visualization - Wikipedia

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    Surface rendering of Arabidopsis thaliana pollen grains with confocal microscope. Scientific visualization (also spelled scientific visualisation) is an interdisciplinary branch of science concerned with the visualization of scientific phenomena. [2] It is also considered a subset of computer graphics, a branch of computer science. The purpose ...

  6. Rasterisation - Wikipedia

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    Raster graphic image. In computer graphics, rasterisation (British English) or rasterization (American English) is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image (a series of pixels, dots or lines, which, when displayed together, create the image which was represented via shapes).

  7. Caustic (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Some computer graphic systems work by "forward ray tracing" wherein photons are modeled as coming from a light source and bouncing around the environment according to rules. Caustics are formed in the regions where sufficient photons strike a surface causing it to be brighter than the average area in the scene.

  8. List of information graphics software - Wikipedia

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    IPE Graphics with LaTeX equations or notations can be stored as PDF files (not only exported to PDF) and be included in LaTeX documents. pdftoipe allows any PDF graph to be edited in Ipe. JFreeChart: GUI, Java, Groovy: LGPL: Yes 2000: November 5, 2017 / 1.5.0: Any : JMP: GUI, scripting: proprietary: No 1989: March 9, 2021 / 16.0: Mac, Windows

  9. Surfel - Wikipedia

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    Surfel is an abbreviated term for a "surface element," analogous to a "voxel" (volume element) or a "pixel" (picture element).In 3D computer graphics, the use of surfels is an alternative to polygonal modeling.