Interactive visualization of weighted three-dimensional alpha hulls
Amitabh Varshney, Frederick P. Brooks, William V. Wright · 1994
An interactive visualization of weighted three-dimensional alpha-hulls is presented for static and dynamic spheres. The alpha-hull is analytically computed and represented by a triangulated mesh. The entire surface is computed and displayed in real-time at interactive rates. The weighted three-dimensional alpha-hulls are equivalent to smooth molecular surfaces of biochemistry. Biochemistry applications of interactive computation and display of alpha-hulls or smooth molecular surfaces are outlined.