Blobby Modeling Traces Back to Maxwell's 1873 Work
Keenan Crane traces 'blobby modeling' back to Maxwell's 1873 treatise, where equipotential lines defined smooth surfaces from few parameters; the idea was revived by Jim Blinn and later extended into metaballs and marching cubes algorithms.
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