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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 53
ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper VII.4

Three Dimensional Acquisition and NURBS based Geometric Modelling of Natural Objects

E. Dimas*, E. Psarakis+, D. Briassoulis* and G. Moustakides+

*Department of Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
+Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
E. Dimas, E. Psarakis, D. Briassoulis, G. Moustakides, "Three Dimensional Acquisition and NURBS based Geometric Modelling of Natural Objects", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 301-310, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.53.7.4
Abstract
This paper presents a recently developed Image Acquisition- Geometric Modelling system for the construction of geometric models of natural objects. This construction is achieved in a two-step procedure. First, the object of interest is digitised, i.e. points on the surface of the object are computed. Then, based on the digitised 3-D points, an approximating surface, a geometric model of the object of interest, is computed. Coupled with a mesh generation package, the system presented allows for further processing and analysis of the resulting model instead of the real object itself.

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