Dynamic Texture for Implicit Surfaces

Ruben Zonenschein 1
Jonas Gomes 1
Luiz Velho 1
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo 2

1 IMPA - Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
2 LNCC - Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica

Dynamic texture mapping is a new method developed in this project to overcome the difficulties on applying bidimensional texture onto implicit surfaces.

Unlike parametric surfaces, implicit surfaces do not have a natural coordinate system defined on them, and traditional parametric texture mapping cannot be used.

The method tracks particles associated with the gradient vector field of the implicit function. The dynamic particle system is used to acquire texture coordinates in a support object.

Available material

  • Description of the Method
  • Examples
  • Animations
  • Images

    Recent papers in this area

  • Towards Interactivity on Texturing Implicit Surfaces: A Distrinuted Approach,
    R. Zonenschein, J. Gomes, L. Velho, N. Rodriguez,
    To be published in Proceedings of WSCG 2001 .

  • Texturing Composite Deformable Implicit Objects,
    R. Zonenschein, J. Gomes, L. Velho, L. H. de Figueiredo, M. Tigges and B. Wyvill,
    Proceedings of SIBGRAPI'98, pp. 346-353, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 1998.
    [Acrobat (PDF)] [Postscript (gziped)]

  • Controlling Texture Mapping onto Implicit Surfaces with Particle Systems,
    R. Zonenschein, J. Gomes, L. Velho and L. H. de Figueiredo,
    Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Implicit Surfaces, pp.131-138, Seattle, USA, July 1998.
    [Acrobat (PDF)] [Postscript (gziped)]

  • Texturing Implicit Surfaces with Particle Systems,
    R. Zonenschein, J. Gomes, L. Velho and L. H. de Figueiredo,
    Technical Sketch in Visual Proceedings SIGGRAPH '97, p. 172, Los Angeles, 1997.
    [pdf]
    Electronically published by ACM Digital Library [html].

  • Textura de Superfícies Implícitas com Sistemas de Partículas,
    R. Zonenschein, J. Gomes, L. Velho and L. H. de Figueiredo,
    in Proceedings of SIBGRAPI '95, pp. 305-306, São Paulo, 1995.
    [pdf]

    • Videos

  • 2D Textures - An Implicit Drama,
    R. Zonenschein, J. Gomes, L. Velho and L. H. de Figueiredo,
    SIBGRAPI '98.

  • Texturing Implicit Objects with Particle Systems,
    R. Zonenschein, J. Gomes, L. Velho and L. H. de Figueiredo,
    Presented at SIGGRAPH '97 Technical Sketch session

    • This research has been developed in the laboratory of Visgraf project at IMPA.
    This project is sponsored by CNPq, FAPERJ, FINEP and IBM Brasil.