Introduction to Volume 11

Index to Volume 11

Introduction to Volume Ii

The writings that have been collected in this volume are closely related to Wilhelm Dilthey’s efforts to complete the second volume of the Introduction to the Human Sciences. Dilthey himself pub­ lished the first volume (Books One and Two) of his Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften in 1883. He never completed Books Three to Six. Drafts for Books Four to Six did exist, but were only publishe...

Introduction to Volume Graphics

This paper is a survey of volume graphics. It includes an introduction to volumetric data and to volume modeling techniques, such as voxelization, texture mapping, amorphous phenomena, block operations, constructive solid modeling, and volume sculpting. A comparison between surface graphics and volume graphics is given, along with a consideration of volume graphics advantages and weaknesses. Th...

Introduction to the Volume

Public opinion surveys provide insights into a very large range of social, economic, and political phenomena. In this book, we look at the survey itself as the means by which the scholarly community seeks to understand those phenomena. A survey can be understood as a collection of ideas at the forefront both of what the scholarly community believes to be important for understanding opinion and ...

Introduction to bounding volume hierarchies

This paper is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of my PhD thesis [Hav04], written to introduce my publications about bounding volume hierachies [Aga02, Arg04, Hav04BG]. 1 Computational geometry and geometric data structures Computational geometry is the area of algorithms research that deals with computations on geometric objects. Examples of such objects are points, lines and polygons in the plane—whi...