Fast Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces


Here are the slides that I presented for a Technical Sketch at SIGGRAPH '96. I have also added to each page a narrative I prepared for the talk.

You can also get the paper (96kB compressed, 2.4MB full) and the color plates (0.9MB compressed, 9.5MB full). The paper was published in 7th Eurographics Rendering Workshop, Porto, Portugal, pages 61-70 and 282, June 1996.

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