Introduction to Computer Graphics
Lecture 10
3D Curves and Solids

Don Herbison-Evans
don@it.uts.edu.au

(updated 24 October 2004)

GENERATION OF 3D CURVED SURFACES AND SOLIDS

  • Sweeping
  • Quadrics
  • Spline patches
  • Blobs
  • Fractals
  • Constructive Solid Geometry
  • various others.
  • Beware that some are complete solids, but some only are surfaces that may join incompletely to leave holes.