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SGP
2007
14 years 12 months ago
Focal surfaces of discrete geometry
The differential geometry of smooth three-dimensional surfaces can be interpreted from one of two perspectives: in terms of oriented frames located on the surface, or in terms of ...
Jingyi Yu, Xiaotian Yin, Xianfeng Gu, Leonard McMi...
CAGD
2005
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14 years 9 months ago
Estimating differential quantities using polynomial fitting of osculating jets
This paper addresses the point-wise estimation of differential properties of a smooth manifold S--a curve in the plane or a surface in 3D--assuming a point cloud sampled over S is...
Frédéric Cazals, Marc Pouget
ICRA
1995
IEEE
188views Robotics» more  ICRA 1995»
15 years 1 months ago
Fast Approximation of Range Images by Triangular Meshes Generated through Adaptive Randomized Sampling
This paper describes and evaluates an efficient technique that allows the fast generation of 3D triangular meshes from range images avoiding optimization procedures. Such a tool ...
Miguel Angel García
IMR
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Identification and Preservation of Surface Features
A surface is often approximated by a network of triangular facets. In the absence of a precise mathematical description of the underlying surface all information about surface pro...
Timothy J. Baker
SMA
2008
ACM
154views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Consistent computation of first- and second-order differential quantities for surface meshes
Differential quantities, including normals, curvatures, principal directions, and associated matrices, play a fundamental role in geometric processing and physics-based modeling. ...
Xiangmin Jiao, Hongyuan Zha