Surface Representation

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How a surface is stored before anything is rendered: explicitly as primitives, or implicitly as a function whose zero set is the surface.

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• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
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Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

Referenced by

• part-ofPolygon Mesh is a subtopic of this
• part-ofSigned Distance Field is a subtopic of this
• part-ofSubdivision Surfaces is a subtopic of this

References

• Background — 3D modeling on Wikipedia