With the advent of sketch-based methods for shape construction, there's a new degree of power available in the rapid creation of approximate shapes. Sketch [Zeleznik, 1996] s...
Discrete curvature and shape operators, which capture complete information about directional curvatures at a point, are essential in a variety of applications: simulation of defor...
Eitan Grinspun, Yotam I. Gingold, Jason Reisman, D...
The complexity and detail of geometric scenes that are used in today’s computer animated films and interactive games have reached a level where the manual creation by tradition...
Animations of hair dynamics greatly enrich the visual attractiveness of human characters. Traditional simulation techniques handle hair as clumps or continuum for efficiency; howe...
It is now common practice in machine vision to define the variability in an object's appearance in a factored manner, as a combination of shape and texture transformations. I...