| 8 GEODESICS AND WAVES | ||||||||||||||||||
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| AUTHORS | ||||||||||||||||||
| AWARDS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Konrad
Polthier, Markus Schmies,
Martin Steffens, Christian Teitzel |
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| Premiered
at Siggraph Electronic
Theater 1997, USA Science Award of the Multimedia Grand Prix 1997, Japan |
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| PRODUCER | ||||||||||||||||||
| Konrad Polthier | ||||||||||||||||||
| CONTRIBUTORS | ||||||||||||||||||
| SOFTWARE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group on Experimental Mathematics and Visualization at TU-Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Oorange, Grape, Softimage | ||||||||||||||||||
| HARDWARE | ||||||||||||||||||
| MUSIC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Silicon Graphics, PC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Christoph März | ||||||||||||||||||
| FURTHER INFORMATION | ||||||||||||||||||
| SUMMARY | ||||||||||||||||||
| www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/~konrad/
video.html |
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| The video introduces geodesic lines as the straightest curves on arbitrary polyhedral surfaces, and studies point waves as an application. Straightest geodesics on polyhedral surfaces allow a unique movement in a given tangential direction, a property not available in the well-known concept of locally shortest geodesics. Geodesics are a suitable tool in the intrinsic definition of numerical algorithms on surfaces. The visualization of interfering waves on arbitrary surfaces uses a branched texture map technique. | ||||||||||||||||||
| CONTACT | ||||||||||||||||||
| Konrad
Polthier
Technische Universität Berlin FB Mathematik, MA 8-3 Straäe des 17. Juni 136 10623 Berlin Germany Tel: +49.30.314.25782 Fax: +49.30.314.21577 konrad.polthier@fu-berlin.de |
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