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MICROMINE 2013

GLOBAL PRESENCE

Whats New On Micromine 2013...

Implicit Modelling
Radial Basis Function (RBF)
Features:
- Surface Modelling
- Fault Surface
- Grade Shell
- Lithology Modelling
- Wireframing Smoothing

The term Implicit modeling was introduced


into the minerals industry by Jun-Cowan in a
paper written in 2003 which is available from
the Orefind website.
Before that paper, it was only described in the
computer graphics literature. However it has
a very specific definition.

First of all the defiiniton of explicit modelling.


Explicit modelling is basically a method to explicitly define
all shape nodes whether this is done bay hand
(usually) or using a computer algorithm.

Implicit modelling on the other hand involves forming a


mathematical expression (a function) of the data first
and saving this on the computer. Wireframe and block
models are then generated by interrogating this
function.
The formulation of this mathematical function (e.g.
Kriging, RBF, or 3D spline) is essential in the implicit
modelling methodology.

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