{"title":"User-controllable polycube map for manifold spline construction","authors":"Hongyu Wang, Miao Jin, Ying He, X. Gu, Hong Qin","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364958","url":null,"abstract":"Polycube T-spline has been formulated elegantly that can unify T-splines and manifold splines to define a new class of shape representations for surfaces of arbitrary topology by using polycube map as its parametric domain. In essense, The data fitting quality using polycube T-splines hinges upon the construction of underlying polycube maps. Yet, existing methods for polycube map construction exhibit some disadvantages. For example, existing approaches for polycube map construction either require projection of points from a 3D surface to its polycube approximation, which is therefore very difficult to handle the cases when two shapes differ significantly; or compute the map by conformally deforming the surfaces and polycubes to the common canonical domain and then construct the map using function composition, which is challenging to control the location of singularities and makes it hard for the data-fitting and hole-filling processes later on.\u0000 This paper proposes a novel framework of user-controllable polycube maps, which can overcome disadvantages of the conventional methods and is much more efficient and accurate. The current approach allows users to directly select the corner points of the polycubes on the original 3D surfaces, then construct the polycube maps by using the new computational tool of discrete Euclidean Ricci flow. We develop algorithms for computing such polycube maps, and show that the resulting user-controllable polycube map serves as an ideal parametric domain for constructing spline surfaces and other applications. The location of singularities can be interactively placed where no important geometric features exist. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed polycube maps introduce lower area distortion and retain small angle distortion as well, and subsequently make the entire hole-filling process much easier to accomplish.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133608172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exact arrangements on tori and Dupin cyclides","authors":"Eric Berberich, Michael Kerber","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364912","url":null,"abstract":"An algorithm and implementation is presented to compute the exact arrangement induced by arbitrary algebraic surfaces on a parametrized ring dupin cyclide. The family of dupin cyclides contains as a special case the torus. The intersection of an algebraic surface of degree n with a reference cyclide is represented as a real algebraic curve of bi-degree (2n, 2n) in the two-dimensional parameter space of the cyclide. We use eigenwillig and kerber: \"exact and efficient 2D-Arrangements of arbitrary algebraic Curves\", SODA 2008, to compute a planar arrangement of such curves and extend their approach to obtain more asymptotic information about curves approaching the boundary of the cyclide's parameter space. With that, we can base our implementation on the general software framework by berberich et. al.: \"sweeping and maintaining two-dimensional arrangements on surfaces: A first Step\", ESA 2007. Our contribution provides the demanded techniques to model the special geometry of surfaces intersecting a cyclide and the special topology of the reference surface of genus one. The contained implementation is complete and does not assume generic position. Our experiments show that the combinatorial overhead of the framework does not harm the efficiency of the method. Our experiments show that the overall performance is strongly coupled to the efficiency of the implementation for arrangements of algebraic plane curves.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130806348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Converting a tetrahedral mesh to a prism-tetrahedral hybrid mesh for FEM accuracy and efficiency","authors":"Soji Yamakawa, K. Shimada","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364941","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a computational method for converting a tetrahedral mesh to a prism-tetrahedral hybrid mesh for improved solution accuracy and computational efficiency of finite element analysis. The proposed method inserts layers of prism elements and deletes tetrahedral elements in sweepable sub-domains, in which cross-sections remain topologically identical and geometrically similar along a certain sweeping path. The total number of finite elements is reduced because roughly three tetrahedral elements are converted to one prism element. The solution accuracy of the finite element analysis improves since a prism element yields a more accurate solution than a tetrahedral element. Only previously known method for creating such a prism-tetrahedral mesh was to manually decompose a target volume into sweepable and non-sweepable sub-volumes and mesh each sub-volume separately. The proposed method starts from a cross-section of a tetrahedral mesh and replaces the tetrahedral elements with layers of prism elements until prescribed quality criteria can no longer be satisfied. The method applies a sequence of edge-collapse, local-transformation, and smoothing operations to remove or displace nodes located within the volume to be replaced with a layer of prism elements. Series of computational fluid dynamics simulations and structural analyses have been conducted, and the results verified a better performance of prismtetrahedral hybrid mesh in finite element simulations.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117243323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solid height-map sets: modeling and visualization","authors":"P. I. N. Santos, Rodrigo de Toledo, M. Gattass","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364953","url":null,"abstract":"Height maps are a very efficient surface representation, initially developed for terrain modeling and visualization. They are also present in other applications, such as mesostructure rendering. However, height maps are incapable of representing overhangs or self-folding surfaces, as well as several occluding objects. In this paper we propose a novel representation to overcome these limitations. A Solid Height-map Set is used to represent arbitrary solid geometry. We also describe a procedure to convert polygonal meshes into our scheme. In addition, we develop a visualization algorithm capable of efficiently rendering this novel representation and implement it using GPU programming. Results achieve an order of magnitude in memory savings as well as high performance independent of the original mesh size.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116699610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visibility-based feature extraction from discrete models","authors":"A. Chica","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364951","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a new visibility-based feature extraction algorithm from discrete models as dense point clouds resulting from laser scans. Based on the observation that one can characterize local properties of the surface by what can be seen by an imaginary creature on the surface, we propose algorithms that extract features using an intermediate representation of the model as a discrete volume for computational efficiency. We describe an efficient algorithm for computing the visibility map among voxels, based on the properties of a discrete erosion. The visibility information obtained in this first step is then used to extract the model components (faces, edges and vertices) --- which may be curved---and to compute the topological connectivity graph in a very efficient and robust way. The results are discussed through several examples.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123084694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu-Kun Lai, Shimin Hu, Ralph Robert Martin, Paul L. Rosin
{"title":"Fast mesh segmentation using random walks","authors":"Yu-Kun Lai, Shimin Hu, Ralph Robert Martin, Paul L. Rosin","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364927","url":null,"abstract":"3D mesh models are now widely available for use in various applications. The demand for automatic model analysis and understanding is ever increasing. Mesh segmentation is an important step towards model understanding, and acts as a useful tool for different mesh processing applications, e.g. reverse engineering and modeling by example. We extend a random walk method used previously for image segmentation to give algorithms for both interactive and automatic mesh segmentation. This method is extremely efficient, and scales almost linearly with increasing number of faces. For models of moderate size, interactive performance is achieved with commodity PCs. It is easy-to-implement, robust to noise in the mesh, and yields results suitable for downstream applications for both graphical and engineering models.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131879055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward superrobust geometric computation","authors":"K. Sugihara","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364905","url":null,"abstract":"To make geometric computation robust against numerical errors is one of the most important issues for practical applications of geometric algorithms. We first review existing approaches to robust geometric computation, and next show that there still remain many difficulties. Finally we discuss possible directions to overcome these difficulties and thus to achieve superrobustness.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130520415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parametric triangular Bézier surface interpolation with approximate continuity","authors":"Yingbin Liu, Stephen Mann","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364956","url":null,"abstract":"A piecewise quintic interpolation scheme with approximate G1 continuity is presented. For a given triangular mesh of arbitrary topology, one quintic triangular Bézier patch is constructed for each data triangle. Although the resulting surface has G1 continuity at the data vertices, we only require approximate G1 continuity along the patch boundaries so as to lower the patch degree. To reduce the normal discontinuity along boundaries, neighbouring patches are adjusted to have identical normals at the middle point of their common boundary. In most cases, the surfaces generated by this scheme have the same level of visual smoothness compared to an existing sextic G1 continuous interpolation scheme. Further, using the new boundary construction method presented in this paper, better shape quality is observed for sparse data sets than the surfaces of the original G1 continuous scheme, upon which the new scheme is based.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130836245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of sections from engineering drawings based on evidence theory","authors":"Jie-Hui Gong, Hui Zhang, Bin Jiang, Jiaguang Sun","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364907","url":null,"abstract":"View identification is the basal process for solid reconstruction from engineering drawings. A new method is presented to label various views from a section-involved drawing and identify geometric planes through the object at which the sections are to be located. In the approach, a graph representation is developed for describing multiple relationships among various views in the 2D drawing space, and a reasoning technique based on evidence theory is implemented to validate view relations that are used to fold views and sections in the 3D object space. This is the first automated approach which can handle multiple sections in diverse arrangements, especially accommodating the aligned section for the first time. Experimental results are given to show that the proposed solution makes a breakthrough in the field and builds a promising basis for further expansibility, although it is not a complete one.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114817948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An incremental approach to feature aligned quad dominant remeshing","authors":"Yu-Kun Lai, L. Kobbelt, Shimin Hu","doi":"10.1145/1364901.1364921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1364901.1364921","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a new algorithm which turns an unstructured triangle mesh into a quad-dominant mesh with edges aligned to the principal directions of the underlying geometry. Instead of computing a globally smooth parameterization or integrating curvature lines along a tangent vector field, we simply apply an iterative relaxation scheme which incrementally aligns the mesh edges to the principal directions. The quad-dominant mesh is eventually obtained by dropping the not-aligned diagonals from the triangle mesh. A post-processing stage is introduced to further improve the results. The major advantage of our algorithm is its conceptual simplicity since it is merely based on elementary mesh operations such as edge collapse, flip, and split. The resulting meshes exhibit a very good alignment to surface features and rather uniform distribution of mesh vertices. This makes them very well-suited, e.g., as Catmull-Clark Subdivision control meshes.","PeriodicalId":216067,"journal":{"name":"Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132246835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}