The recent ability to measure quickly and inexpensively dense sets of points on physical objects has deeply influenced the way engineers used to represent shapes in CAD systems, ...
Alex Yvart, Stefanie Hahmann, Georges-Pierre Bonne...
Previous parametric representations of smooth genus-zero surfaces require a collection of abutting patches (e.g. splines, NURBS, recursively subdivided polygons). We introduce a s...
Frank Losasso, Hugues Hoppe, Scott Schaefer, Joe D...
Defining sharp features in a given 3D model facilitates a better understanding of the surface and aids visualizations, reverse engineering, filtering, simplification, non-photo...
Joel Daniels II, Linh K. Ha, Tilo Ochotta, Cl&aacu...
We illustrate a simple algorithm for approximating the medial axis of a 2D shape with smooth boundary from a sample of this boundary. The algorithm is compared to a more general a...
An algorithm to generate volume meshes by extrusion from surface meshes of arbitrary topology is presented. The algorithm utilizes a three-step, advancing layer scheme to extrude ...
David S. Thompson, Satish Chalasani, Bharat K. Son...