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Fast computation of generalized Voronoi diagrams using graphics hardware

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Kenneth E. Hoff, III,

John Keyser,

Ming Lin,

Dinesh Manocha,

Tim CulverAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '99: Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 277 - 286

https://doi.org/10.1145/311535.311567

Published: 01 July 1999 Publication History

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