Consistent Volumetric Discretizations Inside Self-Intersecting Surfaces

Decades of research have culminated in a robust geometry processing pipeline for surfaces. Most steps in this pipeline, like deformation, smoothing, subdivision and decimation, may create self‐intersections. Volumetric processing of solid shapes then becomes difficult, because obtaining a correct vo...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 147 - 156
Main Authors: Sacht, Leonardo, Jacobson, Alec, Panozzo, Daniele, Schüller, Christian, Sorkine-Hornung, Olga
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2013
Subjects:
Algorithms
Computation
Computer graphics
Computer science
Computer simulation
Discretization
Finite element method
Pipelines
Smoothing
Studies
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United States > US
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Summary:Decades of research have culminated in a robust geometry processing pipeline for surfaces. Most steps in this pipeline, like deformation, smoothing, subdivision and decimation, may create self‐intersections. Volumetric processing of solid shapes then becomes difficult, because obtaining a correct volumetric discretization is impossible: existing tet‐meshing methods require watertight input. We propose an algorithm that produces a tetrahedral mesh that overlaps itself consistently with the self‐intersections in the input surface. This enables volumetric processing on self‐intersecting models. We leverage conformalized mean‐curvature flow, which removes self‐intersections, and define an intrinsically similar reverse flow, which prevents them. We tetrahedralize the resulting surface and map the mesh inside the original surface. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method with applications to automatic skinning weight computation, physically based simulation and geodesic distance computation.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/cgf.12181