SPATIAL DATA STRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS

Approximate on-Surface Distance Computation using Quasi-Developable Charts
R.P. Torchelsen, F.M. Pinto, R. Bastos, J. L. D. Comba
In Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics 2009 Issue)

Salient Clustering for View-dependent Multiresolution Rendering
R. Barni, , A. Varshney, J.L.D. Comba
Proceedings of XXII SIBGRAPI 2009

A Rule-Based Optimizer for Spatial Join Algorithms
Fornari, M. Iochpe, C & J. Comba 
Geo INFO 2006 - VIII Brazilian Symposium on Geonfinformatics

Query Optimizer for Spatial Join Operations
Fornari, M. Iochpe, C & J. Comba
ACM-GIS'06 ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographics Information Systems, 2006, Pages 219-226. ISBN:1-59593-529-0


Boolean Operations on Surfel-Bounded Objects using Constrained BSP-Trees
Farias, M.A.C.; Scheidegger, C.; Comba, J.L.D. & Velho, L.
Proceedings of XVIII SIBGRAPI '05, 2005, 325-332


Broad-Phase Colision Detection Using Semi-Adjusting BSP-Trees
Luque, R.; Comba, J.L.D. & Freitas, C.M.D.
Proceedings of ACM Siggraph Interactive 3D Graphics and Games - I3D 2005, 2005, 179-186

Explorando a Multidimensionalidade da Kd-Tree para Suporte a Temporalidade em Dados Espaciais Vetoriais do Tipo Ponto
L. Heredia, C. Iochpe, J. Comba
Proceedings of GeoInfo 2003

Smart Visible Sets for Networked Virtual Environments
Moreira, F.O.; Comba, J.L.D. & Freitas, C.M.D.S.
Proceedings of XV SIBGRAPI 2002. Pages 373-380. IEEE Press ISBN 0-7695-1846-X, Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2002.


A Segment-Tree Based Kinetic BSP
de Berg, M.; Comba, J.L.D. & Guibas, L.J.
Proceedings of XVII ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SOCG 2001). Pages 134-140. ACM Press ISBN 1-58113-357-X, Medford, USA, June 2001.

Kinetic Data Structures: Animating Proofs Through Time
Basch, J.; Comba, J.; Guibas, L.J.; Hershberger, J.; Silverstein, C. & Zhang, L.
Proceedings of XV ACM Symposium On Computational Geometry (SOCG 1999). ACM Press ISBN 1-58113-068-6. Pages 427-428, Miami, USA,  June 1999.


Conversion of Binary Space Partitioning Trees to Boundary Representation
Comba, J.L.D. & Naylor, B.F.
In Geometric Modeling: Theory and Practice . Pages 286-301. W. Strasser, R. Klein, R. Rau (Eds). Springer Verlag 1996, ISBN 3-540-61883-X.


Affine Arithmetic
Andrade, M.V.A.; Comba, J.L.D. & Stolfi, J.
Proceedings of Interval 94. Pages 36-40. St. Petersburg, Russia, March 1994.


Affine Arithmetic and its applications to Computer Graphics
Comba, J.L.D. & Stolfi, J.
Proceedings of VI SIBGRAPI. Pages 9-18. Recife, Brazil, October 1993.


An Adaptive Triangulation Refinement Scheme and Construction
Persiano, R.C.M.; Comba, J.L.D. & Barbalho, V.
Proceedings of VI SIBGRAPI. Pages 259-266. Recife, Brazil, October 1993.


Ray Tracing of CSG Solids using a Multi-Resolution Bresenham
Comba, J.L.D. & Persiano, R.C.M.
Proceedings of Compugraphics 91, Volume 2, Pages 210-219. Sesimbra,  Portugal.  September 1991.

Accelerated Ray-Tracing of CSG Solids (in portuguese)
Joao Luiz Dihl Comba.
M.Sc. Dissertation, Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computacao, COPPE, UFRJ, 127 pages. April 1991.


"Ray Tracing" Otimizado de Solidos CSG usando Octrees
J. Comba, R. Persiano.
Proceedings of the III SIBGRAPI, Pages 21-30, Gramado, Brazil, May 1990.


Transparencia de Solidos em Octrees
V. Hottum, M. Silva, J. Comba.
Proceedings of the XII CMAC. Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil. October 1990.

Um Sistema para Manipulacao e Visualizacao de Octrees
J. Comba, C. Santos, R. Persiano.
Proceedings of IX Symposium of the SBC. Pages 1-13. Uberlandia, Brazil. July 1989.