… from sets of contours … We present a method that can handle sets of contours in which adjacent
contours share a … problem using a Minimum Spanning Tree generated from the contours, …

… of reconstructing triangular surfaces from given contours. An algorithm solving this problem
must decide which contours of two successive slices should be connected by the surface (…

… of a surface from a stack of contour slices, each consisting of one or more contours. The …
a correspondence between contours or the above properties to he available with contour data. …

… So rather than study the basic physics of surface contours, we will study the basic geometric
reasoning. This will give us some insight into the sorts of geometric constraints that are …

… of surfaces: it is well known that an irreducible contour in R 2 can be generated by a surface
(… number of irreducible components displayed by the contour and the genus of the surface. …

… , the term contour line is commonly used. Figure 1, for example, shows a contour map of the
potential energy surface of a … Often, contour maps must be produced from observations of the …

… Recent work on mapping nolyyonal surface mosaics onto contour defined objects has … a
surface between two single contours . Thi s renort extends these a}yorithms to handle contour …

… contour enables computation of local surface curvature along the corresponding contour
generator on the surface, … is most naturally matched to the recovery of surface curvature. …

… -dimensional surface given only its occluding contours in an image, yet contour information
is … of a surface from its bounding contours in an image we cannot avoid assuming that the …

… to the problem of constructing a surface over a set of cross-sectional contours. This surface,
to be … an optimal surface between each pair of consecutive contours. Determining such a …