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Topological properties of closed digital spaces: One method of constructing digital models of closed continuous surfaces by using covers
Received 18 November 2002;
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Abstract
This paper studies properties of closed digital n-dimensional spaces, which are digital models of continuous n-dimensional closed surfaces. We show that the minimal number of points in a closed digital n-dimensional space is 2n + 2 points. A closed digital n-dimensional space with 2n + 2 points is the minimal n-dimensional sphere, which is the join of n + 1 copies of the 0-dimensional sphere. We prove that a closed digital n-dimensional space cannot contain a closed digital n-dimensional subspace, which is different from the space itself. We introduce the general definition of a closed digital space and prove that a closed digital space is necessarily a closed digital n-dimensional space. Finally, we present conditions which guarantee that every digitization process preserves important topological and geometric properties of continuous closed 2-surfaces. These conditions also allow us to determine the correct digitization resolution for a given closed 2-surface.
Keywords: Computer graphics; Digital model; Digital topology; Closed digital space; Graph; Cover; Dimension; Normal space
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Geometric background for the model of a digital space
- 3. Preliminaries
- 4. Some properties of normal n-dimensional spaces
- 5. Normal spaces
- 6. Representation of continuous objects by digital spaces
- 6.1. Digital models of a topological space
- 6.2. Digital normal models of the sphere, the torus, the projective plane, and the Klein bottle
- 6.3. Digital model of a 2-sphere S2
- 6.4. Digital model of a 2-torus T2
- 6.5. Digital model of a projective plane P2
- 6.6. Digital model of a Klein bottle K2
- 6.7. Digital model of a surface S in E3
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