Feature aligned quad dominant remeshing using iterative local updates

Lai, Yukun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2094-5680, Kobbelt, Leif and Hu, Shi-Min 2010. Feature aligned quad dominant remeshing using iterative local updates. Computer-Aided Design 42 (2) , pp. 109-117. 10.1016/j.cad.2009.02.017

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Abstract

In this paper we present a new algorithm which turns an unstructured triangle mesh into a quad dominant mesh with edges well aligned to the principal directions of the underlying surface. 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. We further obtain the quad dominant mesh by dropping the not-aligned diagonal edges 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. Various results are presented in the paper; they show a good alignment to surface features and rather uniform distribution of mesh vertices. This makes them well suited, e.g., as Catmull–Clark Subdivision control meshes.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Uncontrolled Keywords:	quad dominant remeshing; feature alignment; local updates; iteration
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0010-4485
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 13:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/14161

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