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Polyhedral terrain

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A polyhedral model may be represented in terms of the partition of the plane into polygonal regions, each region being associated with a plane patch which is the image of points of the region under the piecewise-linear function in question.
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A piecewise linear function over two dimensions (top) and the polygonal areas on which it is linear (bottom)
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that intersects every line parallel to some particular line in a connected set (i.e., a point or a
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There are a number of problems in computational geometry which involve polyhedral terrains.
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The polyhedral terrain is a generalization of the two-dimensional geometric object, the
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As the name may suggest, a major application area of polyhedral terrains include
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computational geometry
Euclidean space
polyhedral surface
line segment
Without loss of generality
piecewise-linear function
monotone polygonal chain
geographic information systems
terrains
Sharir, Micha
"Visibility problems for polyhedral terrains"
doi
10.1016/S0747-7171(89)80003-3



Sack, Jörg-Rüdiger
doi
10.1016/B978-0-444-82537-7.X5000-1
ISBN
978-0-444-82537-7
p. 352
Categories
Computational geometry
Surfaces
Polyhedra

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