Overview: Digitizing and Resolving Surfaces

• Survey of digitization methods
  
  
  
  • laser
    
    
  • magnetic
    
    
  • robotic
    
    
  • photographic (specular reflection)
    
    
  • biological slice data
    
    
    
• Surface reconstruction from unordered point data
  
  
  
  
• A brief look at subdivision surfaces
  
  
  
  
• Surface reconstruction from specular reflection patterns (fitting normals)