Digital Lighting Functions

In this paper a notion of lighting function is introduced as an axiomatized formalization of the “face membership rules” suggested by Kovalevsky. These functions are defined in the context of the framework for digital topology previously developed by the authors. This enlarged framework provides the (α, β)-connectedness (α, β e {6,18, 26}) defined on ℤ3 within the graph-based approach to digital topology. Furthermore, the Kong-Roscoe (α, β)-surfaces, with (α, β) ≠ (6, 6), (18, 6), are also found as particular cases of a more general notion of digital surface.

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