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Item Detection of Salient Curvature Features on Polygonal Surfaces(Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 2001) Watanabe, Kouki; Belyaev, Alexander G.We develop an approach for stable detection of perceptually salient curvature features on surfaces approximated by dense triangle meshes. The approach explores an "area degenerating" effect of the focal surface near its singularities and combines together a new approximations of the mean and Gaussian curvatures, nonlinear averaging of curvature maps, histogram-based curvature extrema filtering, and an image processing skeletonization procedure adapted for triangular meshes. Finally we use perceptually significant curvature extrema triangles to enhance the Garland-Heckbert mesh decimation method.Item Mesh Optimization for Polygonized Isosurfaces(Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 2001) Ohtake, Yutaka; Belyaev, Alexander G.In this paper, we propose a method for improvement of isosurface polygonizations. Given an initial polygonization of an isosurface, we introduce a mesh evolution process initialized by the polygonization. The evolving mesh converges quickly to its limit mesh which provides with a high quality approximation of the isosurface even if the isosurface has sharp features, boundary, complex topology. To analyze how close the evolving mesh approaches its destined isosurface, we introduce error estimators measuring the deviations of the mesh vertices from the isosurface and mesh normals from the isosurface normals. A new technique for mesh editing with isosurfaces is also proposed. In particular, it can be used for creating carving effects.