Computers & Graphics, Volume 21

Volume 21, Number 1, 1997

• Muhammad Sarfraz, Muhammed Al-Mulhem, Farooq Ashraf:
  Preserving monotonic shape of the data using piecewise rational cubic functions. 5-14
  
• Bhalinder S. Bawa:
  Faster apparent three dimensional rotation using parallel projection perpendicular to the xy plane. 15-21
  
• Francisco R. Feito, Juan Carlos Torres:
  Inclusion test for general polyhedra. 23-30
  
• Sang-Young Cho, Phillip C.-Y. Sheu, K. H. Kim:
  A state network approach to parallel 3-D graphics. 31-49
  
• John D. Melville, Robert P. Burton:
  Piles for hyperdimensional graphics. 51-60
  
• Karel Culik II, Vladimir Valenta:
  Finite automata based compression of bi-level and simple color images. 61-68
  
• Eugene A. Sandler, Dmitri A. Gusev, Gregory Y. Milman:
  Hybrid algorithms for digital halftoning and their application to medical imaging. 69-78
  
• M. G. El-Said, G. Fischer, S. A. Gamalel-Din, M. Zaki:
  ADDI: a tool for automating the design of visual interfaces. 79-87
  
• Haijian Sun, Lin Liu, Aike Guo:
  Logistic map graph set. 89-103
  
• Gabriel Landini:
  Fractal anamorphosis: look up table transform using self-affine series. 105-111
  
• Werner Hansmann:
  A survey of computer graphics education at German universities. 113-116
  
• Werner Hansmann:
  A survey of computer graphics in art education in Germany. 117-119
  
• Dieter Schmalstieg, Robert F. Tobler:
  Exploiting coherence in 2.5-D visibility computation. 121-123
  

Volume 21, Number 2, 1997

• Bengt-Olaf Schneider, Andreas Schilling:
  Guest editors' introduction. 125-127
  
• Martin White, Mike Bassett, Dairsie Latimer, Shaun McCann, Alex Makris, Marcus D. Waller, Graham J. Dunnett, Joachim Binder, Paul F. Lister:
  The TAYRA 3-D graphics raster processor. 129-142
  
• K. Bennebroek, I. Ernst, H. Rüsseler, O. Wittig:
  Design principles of hardware-based phong shading and bump-mapping. 143-149
  
• Stephen D. Jordan, Philip E. Jensen, Barthold B. A. Lichtenbelt:
  An architecture for high-performance 2-D image display. 151-157
  
• Donald McManus, Carl J. Beckmann:
  Optimal static 2-dimensional screen subdivision for parallel rasterization architectures. 159-169
  
• David C. Banks:
  The imageswitcher: a design for reducing VR lag via parallel image generation. 171-177
  
• M. De Boer, A. Gröpl, Jürgen Hesser, Reinhard Männer:
  Latency- and hazard-free volume memory architecture for direct volume rendering. 179-187
  
• M. De Boer, Jürgen Hesser, A. Gröpl, T. Günther, Christoph Poliwoda, C. Reinhart, Reinhard Männer:
  Evaluation of a real-time direct volume rendering system. 189-198
  
• Urs Kanus, Michael Meißner, Wolfgang Straßer, Hanspeter Pfister, Arie E. Kaufman, Rick Amerson, Richard J. Carter, W. Bruce Culbertson, Philip Kuekes, Greg Snider:
  Implementations of cube-4 on the teramac custom computing machine. 199-208
  
• Václav Skala:
  A fast algorithm for line clipping by convex polyhedron in E³. 209-214
  
• Marc Vigo Anglada:
  An improved incremental algorithm for constructing restricted delaunay triangulations. 215-223
  
• Carlos Ureña, Xavier Pueyo, Juan Carlos Torres:
  A formalization and classification of global illumination methods. 225-236
  
• Markus H. Gross, Lars Lippert, R. Dittrich, S. Häring:
  Two methods for wavelet-based volume rendering. 237-252
  
• Satish Chandra:
  A tutorial and diagnostic tool for chaotic oscillators and time series. 253-262
  
• Clifford A. Reiter:
  Attractors with dueling symmetry. 263-271
  

Volume 21, Number 3, 1997

• Yingqing Xu, Su Cheng, Qi Dongxu, Li Hua, Shenquan Liu:
  Physically based simulation of water currents and waves. 277-280
  
• Hujun Bao, Xiaogang Jin, Qunsheng Peng:
  A progressive radiosity algorithm based on piecewise polynomial intensity distribution. 281-288
  
• Wencheng Wang, Ding-Hong Zhou, Enhua Wu:
  Accelerating techniques in volume rendering of irregular data. 289-295
  
• Wang Lazhu, Zhu Xinxiong, Zesheng Tang:
  Coons type blended B-spline (CNSBS) surface and its conversion to NURBS surface. 297-303
  
• Guan Zhidong, Ling Jin, Tao Ning, Ping Xi, Rongxi Tang:
  Study and application of physics-based deformable curves and surfaces. 305-313
  
• Minglu Li, Yongqiang Sun, Huanye Sheng:
  Temporal relations in multimedia systems. 315-320
  
• Zhigeng Pan, Xiaohu Ma, Mingmin Zhang, Jiaoying Shi:
  Chinese font composition method based on algebraic system of geometric shapes. 321-328
  
• Mauro Carrozzo, Francesco Lacquaniti:
  Geometric transformations for displaying virtual objects on stereoscopic devices. 329-334
  
• Ugur Güdükbay, Bülent Özgüç, Yilmaz Tokad:
  A spring force formulation for elastically deformable models. 335-346
  
• Christoph Busch:
  Wavelet based texture segmentation of multi-modal tomographic images. 347-358
  
• Xiaobu Yuan, Hanqiu Sun:
  P-buffer: a hidden-line algorithm in image-space. 359-366
  
• Yan Qiu Chen, Guoan Bi:
  3-D IFS fractals as real-time graphics model. 367-370
  
• Paulus Gerdes:
  On mirror curves and lunda-designs. 371-378
  
• David C. Banks:
  Including graphics and visualization research in a master's-level course. 379-387
  

Volume 21, Number 4, 1997

• Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Cagatay Basdogan:
  Haptics in virtual environments: taxonomy, research status, and challenges. 393-404
  
• Dinesh K. Pai, L.-M. Reissell:
  Haptic interaction with multiresolution image curves. 405-411
  
• Hiroo Iwata, Hiroaki Yano, Wataru Hashimoto:
  LHX: an integrated software tool for haptic interface. 413-420
  
• Pietro Buttolo, Roberto Oboe, Blake Hannaford:
  Architectures for shared haptic virtual environments. 421-429
  
• Greg R. Luecke, Young-ho Chai, James C. Edwards:
  Force interactions in the synthetic environment using the ISU force reflecting exoskeleton. 431-442
  
• Douglas P. Haanpaa, Gerald P. Roston:
  An advanced haptic system for improving man-machine interfaces. 443-449
  
• Noshir A. Langrana, Grigore C. Burdea, Jumoke Ladeji, Michael Dinsmore:
  Human performance using virtual reality tumor palpation simulation. 451-458
  
• Jose Dionisio, Volker Henrich, Udo Jakob, Alexander Rettig, Rolf Ziegler:
  The virtual touch: Haptic interfaces in virtual environments. 459-468
  
• Sangkun Park, Kunwoo Lee:
  High-dimensional trivariate nurbs representation for analyzing and visualizing fluid flow data. 473-482
  
• Jihun Park, Donald S. Fussell:
  Forward dynamics based realistic animation of rigid bodies. 483-496
  
• Insung Ihm, Rae Kyoung Lee:
  Indexing data structures for faster volume rendering. 497-506
  
• JunHyeok Heo, Soon Ki Jung, KwangYun Wohn:
  Exploiting temporally coherent visibility for accelerated walkthroughs. 507-517
  
• Andrew Adamatzky:
  Cellular automaton labyrinths and solution finding. 519-522
  
• K. W. Chung, H. S. Y. Chan, B. N. Wang:
  Tessellations with the modular group from dynamics. 523-534
  

Volume 21, Number 5, 1997

• Rosa Maria Spitaleri, Rossella Cossu:
  A comparative analysis of reference models for visual and computational integrated environments. 537-547
  
• Ugur Güdükbay:
  A movable jaw model for the human face. 549-554
  
• Byong K. Ko, Hyun Seung Yang:
  Finger mouse and gesture recognition system as a new human computer interface. 555-561
  
• Michael Clifton, Alex Pang:
  Cutting planes and beyond. 563-575
  
• Kaihuai Qin, Minglun Gong, Guan Youjiang, Wenping Wang:
  A new method for speeding up ray tracing NURBS surfaces. 577-586
  
• Jean-Pierre Braquelaire, Jean-Philippe Domenger:
  Geometrical, topological, and hierarchical structuring of overlapping 2-D discrete objects. 587-597
  
• Robert Joan-Arinyo, Antoni Soto-Riera:
  A correct rule-based geometric constraint solver. 599-609
  
• Roman Durikovic, Kazufumi Kaneda, Hideo Yamashita:
  Reconstructing a 3-D structure with multiple deformable solid primitives. 611-624
  
• Fabrice Aubert, Dominique Bechmann:
  Volume-preserving space deformation. 625-639
  
• Chee Kai Chua, Robert K. L. Gay, Wolfgang Hoheisel:
  Computer aided decoration of ceramic tableware. Part I: 3-D decoration. 641-653
  
• Chee Kai Chua, Robert K. L. Gay, Wolfgang Hoheisel:
  Computer aided decoration of ceramic tableware. Part II: rapid tooling. 655-672
  
• Clifford A. Reiter:
  The game of life on a hyperbolic domain. 673-683
  
• W. M. Payten, B. Ben-Nissan:
  Optimal structure formation using a chaotic self-organisational algorithm. 685-688
  

Volume 21, Number 6, 1997

• Jörg Zedler, Marwan Ramadan:
  I-Media: an integrated media server and media database as a basic component of a cross media publishing system. 693-702
  
• Mary C. Dyson, Gary J. Kipping:
  The legibility of screen formats: are three columns better than one? 703-712
  
• Ariel Shamir, Ari Rappoport:
  Quality enhancements of digital outline fonts. 713-725
  
• Jacky Herz, Roger D. Hersch, Jakob Gonczarowski:
  Coherent processing of character skeletal forms. 727-736
  
• Chung-Wen Chung, Jung-Hong Chuang, Pei-Huan Chou:
  Efficient polygonization of CSG solids using boundary tracking. 737-748
  
• Feng Dong, Wang Xiaomei, Wenli Cai, Jiaoying Shi:
  A mass conservative flow field visualization method. 749-756
  
• Wei-Yu Han, Ja-Chen Lin:
  Edge detection and edge-preserved compression for error-diffused images. 757-767
  
• Ling Li:
  Animation of stochastic motion of 3-D cloth objects. 769-775
  
• Feng Lin, Seah Hock Soon, Yong Tsui Lee:
  Structure modeling and context-free grammar: exploring a new approach for surface boundary construction. 777-785
  
• Simon S. P. Shum, W. S. Lau, Matthew Ming-Fai Yuen, Kai-Ming Yu:
  Solid reconstruction from orthographic opaque views using incremental extrusion. 787-800
  
• David Mould, Yee-Hong Yang:
  Modeling water for computer graphics. 801-814
  
• Juan Ruiz de Miras, Francisco R. Feito:
  Inclusion test for curved-edge polygons. 815-824
  
• Hans Werner Kohl:
  First-hit speed up in ray tracing surfaces of functions of two variables. 825-839
  
• Clifford A. Reiter:
  Chaotic attractors with the symmetry of a tetrahedron. 841-848
  
• M. Romera, G. Pastor, F. Montoya:
  A scaling constant equal to unity in 1-D quadratic maps. 849-857
  
• Eugene A. Sandler, Dmitri A. Gusev, Gregory Y. Milman:
  Hybrid Algorithms for Digital Halftoning and Their Application to Medical Imaging. 859