Abstract : It is a widely observed phenomenon in computer graphics that the size of the silhouette of a polyhedron is much smaller than the size of the whole polyhedron. This paper provides for the first time theoretical evidence supporting this for a large class of objects, namely for polyhedra that approximate surfaces in some reasonable way; the surfaces may not be convex or differentiable and they may have boundaries. We prove that such polyhedra have silhouettes of expected size $O(\sqrt{n})$ where the average is taken over all points of view and $n$ is the complexity of the polyhedron.
https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00095282 Contributor : Marc GlisseConnect in order to contact the contributor Submitted on : Friday, September 15, 2006 - 2:23:55 PM Last modification on : Friday, January 21, 2022 - 3:10:56 AM
Marc Glisse. An Upper Bound on the Average Size of Silhouettes. 22nd ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry 2006, Jun 2006, Sedona, Arizona, United States. pp.105-111, ⟨10.1145/1137856.1137874⟩. ⟨inria-00095282⟩