The Direct Manipulation of Pasted Surfaces
Marryat Ma · 2000
c○Marryat Ma 2000I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. I authorize the University of Waterloo to lend this thesis to other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research. I further authorize the University of Waterloo to reproduce this thesis by photocopying or by other means, in total or in part, at the request of other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research. iii The University of Waterloo requires the signatures of all persons using or photocopying this thesis. Please sign below, and give address and date. Surface pasting is a method for creating complex composite surfaces by adding local detail or feature surfaces to a base surface. Previous surface pasting editors enabled users to paste, translate, rotate, and resize feature surfaces, but none allowed users to directly manipulate a surface in the pasting hierarchy. In this thesis, I propose a multiresolution direct manipulation technique that allows the user to pick a point on a surface and move it to a new location and have