Skip Navigation

The Computer Journal 1971 14(3):232-237; doi:10.1093/comjnl/14.3.232
© 1971 by British Computer Society
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (15)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Jones, C. B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

A new approach to the ‘hidden line’ problem

C. B. Jones *

BEA Management Services, West London Air Terminal, Cromwell Road, London, UK

This paper presents an approach to hidden line removal which relies on three-dimensional objects being described in terms of a series of inter-connected spatial cells. Avenues of sight through the openings between cells are explored in the process of generating display information for a perspective picture from a given viewpoint. An implementation on a small computer with a graphics display is described, and the performance of the program is illustrated by photographs of some views which were generated in a few seconds. Data preparation for the examples involved the definition of the space surrounding the objects by means of a special purpose data structure.

Received June 1970.

* While at the Centre for Computing and Automation, Imperial College, London. (The work described was supported by a Science Research Council Grant No. B/SR/2071, ‘Computer Processing of Three Dimensional Shapes’.)

§ BEA Management Services, West London Air Terminal, Cromwell Road, London, SW7


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.