This is a discussion board for January 23 class which will cover the papers

C.J. Taylor, D. Kriegman, Structure and motion from line segments in multiple images, IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol 17, 11, pp 1021-1033, Nov 1995.

P. E. Debevec, C.J.Taylor, J. Malik, Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs:A hybrid geometry-and image-based approach, SIGGRAPH 1996, pp11-20.

Edited by author 01-23-2003 03:38 AM
In the second paper, modeling and rendering architecture from photographs,a hybrid geometry- and image-based approach, the dome in the example was manually edited by the user. There are another two papers introducing approaches which can automatically generate surface of revolution under some assumptions.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~seitz/course/SIGG99/papers/arcsor.pdf.If you are interested, you can take a look at it.