Surface Fairing towards Regular Principal Curvature Line Networks

dc.contributor.authorChu, Leien_US
dc.contributor.authorBo, Pengboen_US
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Yangen_US
dc.contributor.authorWang, Wenpingen_US
dc.contributor.editorLee, Jehee and Theobalt, Christian and Wetzstein, Gordonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-14T05:06:47Z
dc.date.available2019-10-14T05:06:47Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractFreeform surfaces whose principal curvature line network is regularly distributed, are essential to many real applications like CAD modeling, architecture design, and industrial fabrication. However, most designed surfaces do not hold this nice property because it is hard to enforce such constraints in the design process. In this paper, we present a novel method for surface fairing which takes a regular distribution of the principal curvature line network on a surface as an objective. Our method first removes the high-frequency signals from the curvature tensor field of an input freeform surface by a novel rolling guidance tensor filter, which results in a more regular and smooth curvature tensor field, then deforms the input surface to match the smoothed field as much as possible. As an application, we solve the problem of approximating freeform surfaces with regular principal curvature line networks, discretized by quadrilateral meshes. By introducing the circular or conical conditions on the quadrilateral mesh to guarantee the existence of discrete principal curvature line networks, and minimizing the approximate error to the original surface and improving the fairness of the quad mesh, we obtain a regular discrete principal curvature line network that approximates the original surface. We evaluate the efficacy of our method on various freeform surfaces and demonstrate the superiority of the rolling guidance tensor filter over other tensor smoothing techniques. We also utilize our method to generate high-quality circular/conical meshes for architecture design and cyclide spline surfaces for CAD modeling.en_US
dc.description.number7
dc.description.sectionheadersGeometric Modeling
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13821
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages115-125
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13821
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13821
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectMesh geometry models
dc.subjectParametric curve and surface models
dc.subjectShape analysis
dc.titleSurface Fairing towards Regular Principal Curvature Line Networksen_US
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