Discrete Groups and Visualization of Three-dimensional Manifolds
Charlie Gunn
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 93, August 1993, pp. 255--262.
Abstract: We describe a software implementation for interactive visualization of a wide class of discrete groups. In addition to familiar Euclidean space, these groups act on the curved geometries of hyperbolic and spherical space. We construct easily computable models of our geometric spaces based on projective geometry; and establish algorithms for visualization of three-dimensional manifolds based upon the close connection between discrete groups and manifolds. We describe an object-oriented implementation of these concepts, and several novel visualization applications. As a visualization tool, this software breaks new ground in two directions: interactive exploration of curved spaces, and of topological manifolds modeled on these spaces. It establishes a generalization of the application of projective geometry to computer graphics, and lays the groundwork for visualization of spaces of non-constant curvature.
Keyword(s): display algorithms, geometric algorithms, hierarchy and geometric transformations, color, shading, shadowing, and texture, discrete group, tessellation, quotient space, projective geometry, hyperbolic geometry, spherical geometry, curvature, geodesic
BibTeX format:
@inproceedings{Gunn:1993:DGA,
  author = {Charlie Gunn},
  title = {Discrete Groups and Visualization of Three-dimensional Manifolds},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 93},
  pages = {255--262},
  month = aug,
  year = {1993},
}
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