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Modeling a Murex cabritii sea shell with a structured implicit surface modeler

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, and its application to the generation of a complex and visually accurate biological model of the sea shell Murex cabritii. Since the model is purely procedurally defined and does not rely on polygon mesh operations, it is resolution independent and can be rendered directly using ray tracing. An interface has been built for the BlobTree using an interpreted programming language (Python). The language interface readily allows a user to procedurally describe the shell based on numeric data taken from the actual object.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada E-mail: {callum,pwp,blob}@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, CA

    Callum Galbraith, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz & Brian Wyvill

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  1. Callum Galbraith
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Published online: 15 March 2002

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Galbraith, C., Prusinkiewicz, P. & Wyvill, B. Modeling a Murex cabritii sea shell with a structured implicit surface modeler. Visual Comp 18, 70–80 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003710100136

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