Meanings
plural supercovers
- computer graphicsA set of all of the pixels or voxels etc. that intersect a given object.
an expanded part of the reconstructed object using supercovers
2012, Valentin E. Brimkov, Reneta P. Barneva, Digital Geometry Algorithms (page 349)1 more example
Supercovers may contain "bubbles", i.e. many digitization pixels for one point points with half-integer coordinates for instance).
2005, Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, page 349
Origin
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