Generating subdivision surfaces from profile curves

The construction of freeform models has always been a challenging task. A popular approach is to edit a primitive object such that its projections conform to a set of given planar curves. This process is tedious and relies very much on the skill and experience of the designer in editing 3D shapes. This paper describes an intuitive approach for the modeling of freeform objects based on planar profile curves. A freeform surface defined by a set of orthogonal planar curves is created by blending a corresponding set of sweep surfaces. Each of the sweep surfaces is obtained by sweeping a planar curve about a computed axis. A Catmull-Clark subdivision surface interpolating a set of data points on the object surface is then constructed. Since the curve points lying on the computed axis of the sweep will become extraordinary vertices of the subdivision surface, a mesh refinement process is applied to adjust the mesh topology of the surface around the axis points. In order to maintain characteristic features of the surface defined with the planar curves, sharp features on the surface are located and are retained in the mesh refinement process. This provides an intuitive approach for constructing freeform objects with regular mesh topology using planar profile curves.     

Approximating digital 3D shapes by rational Gaussian surfaces

A method for approximating spherical topology digital shapes by rational Gaussian (RaG) surfaces is presented. Points in a shape are parametrized by approximating the shape with a triangular mesh, determining parameter coordinates at mesh vertices, and finding parameter coordinates at shape points from interpolation of parameter coordinates at mesh vertices. Knowing the locations and parameter coordinates of the shape points, the control points of a RaG surface are determined to approximate the shape with a required accuracy. The process starts from a small set of control points and gradually increases the control points until the error between the surface and the digital shape reduces to a required tolerance. Both triangulation and surface approximation proceed from coarse to fine. Therefore, the method is particularly suitable for multiresolution creation and transmission of digital shapes over the Internet. Application of the proposed method in editing of 3D shapes is demonstrated.     

Transitive mesh space of a progressive mesh

The paper investigates the set of all selectively refined meshes that can be obtained from a progressive mesh. We call the set the transitive mesh space of a progressive mesh and present a theoretical analysis of the space. We define selective edge collapse and vertex split transformations, which we use to traverse all selectively refined meshes in the transitive mesh space. We propose a complete selective refinement scheme for a progressive mesh based on the transformations and compare the scheme with previous selective refinement schemes in both theoretical and experimental ways. In our comparison, we show that the complete scheme always generates selectively refined meshes with smaller numbers of vertices and faces than previous schemes for a given refinement criterion. The concept of dual pieces of the vertices in the vertex hierarchy plays a central role in the analysis of the transitive mesh space and the design of selective edge collapse and vertex split transformations.     

Fitting Sharp Features with Loop Subdivision Surfaces

Various methods have been proposed for fitting subdivision surfaces to different forms of shape data (e.g., dense meshes or point clouds), but none of these methods effectively deals with shapes with sharp features, that is, creases, darts and corners. We present an effective method for fitting a Loop subdivision surface to a dense triangle mesh with sharp features. Our contribution is a new exact evaluation scheme for the Loop subdivision with all types of sharp features, which enables us to compute a fitting Loop subdivision surface for shapes with sharp features in an optimization framework. With an initial control mesh obtained from simplifying the input dense mesh using QEM, our fitting algorithm employs an iterative method to solve a nonlinear least squares problem based on the squared distances from the input mesh vertices to the fitting subdivision surface. This optimization framework depends critically on the ability to express these distances as quadratic functions of control mesh vertices using our exact evaluation scheme near sharp features. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.     

隐式曲面重新多边形化

首先用Bloomenthal的多边形化算法生成一个粗糙的初始网格;然后在初始网格上分布若干个新顶点,新顶点可以均匀分布,也可以按曲率分布;再把初始网格上的老顶点和新顶点连接起来,生成一个中间网格,从中间网格上删除初始网格上的老顶点,得到重新多边形化的网格;最后细分这个网格．实验结果表明：该算法可以生成近似等边的、大小由曲率指导的三角网格．     

网格模型的局部编辑算法

提出一种新的网格模型局部编辑算法，该算法可以精确地控制变形区域的大小、边界和变形点的位移，克服了FFD及其改进算法的缺点．首先交互地定义一个附着在模型表面的控制网格；然后建立模型变形区域与控制网格间点的映射，再依据变形要求来编辑控制网格；最后根据映射关系反算出模型变形区域点的新位置．控制网格可以是参数曲面的控制网格，也可采用一般三角网格或预先定义的网格模板．为达到精确变形的目的，对模型与控制网格重叠的区域进行自适应细分．该算法计算简便、易于实现，并能达到很好的效果．     

Direct Reconstruction of a Displaced Subdivision Surface from Unorganized Points

In this paper we describe the generation of a displaced subdivision surface directly from a set of unorganized points. The displaced subdivision surface is an efficient mesh representation that defines a detailed mesh with a displacement map over a smooth domain surface and has many benefits including compression, rendering, and animation, which overcome limitations of an irregular mesh produced by an ordinary mesh reconstruction scheme. Unlike previous displaced subdivision surface reconstruction methods, our method does not rely on a highly detailed reconstructed mesh. Instead, we efficiently create a coarse base mesh, which is used to sample displacements directly from unorganized points, and this results in a simple process and fast calculation. We suggest a shrink-wrapping-like shape approximation and a point-based mesh simplification method that uses the distance between a set of points and a mesh as an error metric to generate a domain surface that optimally approximates the given points. We avoid time-consuming energy minimization by employing a local subdivision surface fitting scheme. Finally, we show several reconstruction results that demonstrate the usability of our algorithm.     

勾画式交互的网格模型分割

提出一种基于区域增长的交互三维网格模型分割方法。在区域增长的基础上,首先由用户利用基于勾画的交互方式选定部分顶点作为目标和背景,其余顶点作为未知区域,利用区域增长的方法自动生成目标的边界,从而完成模型的分割。此方法中边界顶点分割结果的好坏直接影响到了最终的分割结果,因此,在利用区域增长方法形成边界时,将既与目标相邻又与背景相邻的顶点标记为特殊点,在其余未知部分分割完成之后,重新对特殊点进行一次区域增长算法。此时由于大部分顶点的状态已经确定,获得的边界将更为准确。实验表明分割结果有了很大程度的改进。     

Progressive Interpolation based on Catmull‐Clark Subdivision Surfaces

We introduce a scheme for constructing a Catmull‐Clark subdivision surface that interpolates the vertices of a quadrilateral mesh with arbitrary topology. The basic idea here is to progressively modify the vertices of an original mesh to generate a new control mesh whose limit surface interpolates all vertices in the original mesh. The scheme is applicable to meshes with any size and any topology, and it has the advantages of both a local scheme and a global scheme.     

Some applications of Loop-subdivision wavelet tight frames to?the?processing of 3D graphics

Multiresolution analysis based on subdivision wavelets is an important method of 3D graphics processing. Many applications of this method have been studied and developed, including denoising, compression, progressive transmission, multiresolution editing and so on. Recently Charina and St?ckler firstly gave the explicit construction of wavelet tight frame transform for subdivision surfaces with irregular vertices, which made its practical applications to 3D graphics became a subject worthy of investigation. Based on the works of Charina and St?ckler, we present in detail the wavelet tight frame decomposition and reconstruction formulas for Loop-subdivision scheme. We further implement the algorithm and apply it to the denoising, compression and progressive transmission of 3D graphics. By comparing it with the biorthogonal Loop-subdivision wavelets of Bertram, the numerical results illustrate the good performance of the algorithm. Since multiresolution analysis based on subdivision wavelets or subdivision wavelet tight frames requires the input mesh to be semi-regular, we also propose a simple remeshing algorithm for constructing meshes which not only have subdivision connectivity but also approximate the input mesh.     

基于顶点法向量约束的Catmull-Clark细分插值方法

提出一种基于顶点法向量约束实现插值的两步Catmull-Clark细分方法.第一步,通过改造型Catmull-Clark细分生成新网格.第二步,通过顶点法向量约束对新网格进行调整.两步细分分别运用渐进迭代方法和拉格朗日乘子法,使得极限曲面插值于初始控制顶点和法向量.实验结果证明了该方法可同时实现插值初始控制顶点和法向量,极限曲面具有较好的造型效果.     

Perception-motivated multiresolution rendering on sole-cube maps

This paper presents a novel GPU-based multiresolution rendering on sole-cube maps (SCMs), which is a variant of geometry images built upon spherical parameterization. Given spherical parametrization of a manifold mesh, the sphere domain is gnomonically projected to a closed cube, which constitutes the 6-chart sole-cube maps. A quadtree structure of SCMs and normal map atlas are then constructed by using the regular re-sampling. Then, by packing the quadtree nodes into the SCMs texture atlas, a new parallel multiresolution rendering is processed on the latest GPU in two rendering passes: the multiresolution node selection in fragment shader; the triangulation in vertex shader followed by the node culling operation in geometry shader. The proposed approach generates adaptive mesh surfaces dynamically, and can be fully implemented in GPU parallelization. The proposed scheme alleviates the computing load of multiresolution mesh refinement on CPU, and our GPU-based multiresolution rendering is demonstrated with a variety of examples. Our user study confirmed that the visual quality of the SCMs multiresolution rendering, in comparison with the meshes/geometry images rendering, is also highly efficient especially for complex models in large-scale virtual environment.     

Adaptive mesh refinement for shells with modified Ahmad elements

This paper presents a simple scheme for the generation of a quadrilateral element mesh for shells with arbitrary three-dimensional geometry. The present mesh generation scheme incorporates a normal mesh generator for generating a mesh in the two-dimensional plane and a specific mapping technique which maps the two-dimensional mesh onto the three-dimensional curved surface. As the mapping is a one-to-one mapping between the mesh in the plane and that on the curved surface, the resulting surface discretization is compatible with the local mesh parameters in two dimensions. This scheme is further combined, both with a sophisticated error estimate determined by using the best guess values of bending moments and membrane and transverse shear forces obtained from a previous solution, and an effective mesh refinement strategy established at an element level in order to complete an adaptive analysis for shell structures. Numerical examples are shown to illustrate the principles and procedure of the present adaptive analysis.     

隐式曲面的多分辨率法向网格逼近

法向网格是一种新型的曲面多分辨率描述方式，其中每个层次都可以表示为其前一个粗糙层次的法向偏移．文中提出一种基于法向网格表示的隐式曲面多分辨率网格逼近算法．首先通过基于空间剖分技术的多边形化算法获得隐式曲面的粗糙逼近网格，并利用网格均衡化方法对粗糙网格进行优化，消除其中的狭长三角形；然后利用法向细分规则迭代地对网格中的三角面片进行细分，并利用区间算术技术沿法向方向对隐式曲面进行逼近．最终生成的隐式曲面分片线性逼近网格为法向网格．该逼近网格为隐式曲面提供了一种多分辨率表示，网格具有细分连通性，其数据量较传统的多边形化算法所生成的网格有大幅度的压缩．该算法可用于隐式曲面的多级绘制、累进传输及相关数字几何处理．     

Dynamic Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces

Recursive subdivision schemes have been extensively used in computer graphics, computer-aided geometric design, and scientific visualization for modeling smooth surfaces of arbitrary topology. Recursive subdivision generates a visually pleasing smooth surface in the limit from an initial user-specified polygonal mesh through the repeated application of a fixed set of subdivision rules. We present a new dynamic surface model based on the Catmull-Clark subdivision scheme, a popular technique for modeling complicated objects of arbitrary genus. Our new dynamic surface model inherits the attractive properties of the Catmull-Clark subdivision scheme, as well as those of the physics-based models. This new model provides a direct and intuitive means of manipulating geometric shapes, and an efficient hierarchical approach for recovering complex shapes from large range and volume data sets using very few degrees of freedom (control vertices). We provide an analytic formulation and introduce the “physical” quantities required to develop the dynamic subdivision surface model which can be interactively deformed by applying synthesized forces. The governing dynamic differential equation is derived using Lagrangian mechanics and the finite element method. Our experiments demonstrate that this new dynamic model has a promising future in computer graphics, geometric shape design, and scientific visualization     

Smooth reverse Loop and Catmull–Clark subdivision

In this paper we present a new multiresolution technique for general topology surfaces based on reversing subdivision with energy minimization. We first introduce a general reverse subdivision approach that starts from a trial set of biorthogonal multiresolution filters and refines the resulting coarse points using local masks. The refinement step tries to find a good approximation of the fine points while minimizing the local energy of the coarse points in a least-squares sense. This approach is then used to find smooth reverse of the Loop and Catmull–Clark subdivisions. We discuss the advantages of using this technique in various surface editing and synthesis applications.     

基于Hermite插值的网格拼接和融合

网格模型的拼接和融合是3维形状编辑和造型中的一个重要方面。基于Hermite插值技术,提出一种适用于具有一般边界点空间分布的三角网格模型之间无缝光滑拼接和融合方法。首先查找网格模型待拼接区域的边缘点集,并利用二次B样条曲线插值边缘点集分别得到边缘曲线;然后对边缘曲线进行Hermite插值得到拼接区域连续曲面;最后对拼接曲面分别进行三角网格化和Laplacian光顺平滑处理以实现网格模型的光滑拼接和融合。由于利用B样条曲线插值待拼接模型边界,本文方法适用于具有各种不同边界情形的网格模型拼接和融合,它不仅仅可以处理平面边界曲线情形也可以处理空间边界曲线情形。结合Hermite曲面插值拼接过渡区域,使得产生的拼接网格能光滑地衔接待拼接模型。实验结果表明,本文方法能够有效地实现三角网格模型的光滑拼接、模型修复和模型融合。     

Fast hierarchical animated object decomposition using approximately invariant signature

In this paper, we introduce a novel method to hierarchically decompose the animated 3d object efficiently by utilizing high-dimensional and multi-scale geometric information. The key idea is to treat the animated surface sequences as a whole and extract the near-rigid components from it. Our approach firstly detects a set of the multi-scale feature points on the animated object and computes approximately invariant signature vectors for these points. Then, exploiting both the geometric attributes and the local signature vector of each point (vertex) of the animated object, all the points (vertices) of the animated object can be clustered efficiently using a GPU-accelerated mean shift clustering algorithm. To refine the decomposition boundaries, the initially-generated boundaries of the animated object can be further improved by applying a boundary refinement technique based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs). Furthermore, we propose a hierarchical decomposition technique using a topology merging strategy without introducing additional computations.     

Multiresolution free-form deformation with subdivision surface of arbitrary topology

A new free-from deformation method is presented in this paper. Object deformation is controlled by a mesh of arbitrary topology, namely a control mesh. The subdivision surface determined by the control mesh spans an intermediate deformation space. The object is embedded into the space by the nearest point rule. When the shape of the control mesh is changed, the object embedded in the intermediate deformation space will be deformed accordingly. Since the subdivision surface has a multiresolution property, the proposed deformation method naturally has a multiresolution property. A technique for generating control meshes is also introduced in the paper. Compared with previous deformation methods with arbitrary topology control tools, the proposed method has the advantages of flexible control and computational efficiency.     

Wireframe Projections: Physical Realisability of Curved Objects and Unambiguous Reconstruction of Simple Polyhedra

The reconstruction of an object from a single 2D projection of a 3D wireframe model is a vision problem with applications in CAD/CAM and computer graphics.We propose an algorithm for the interpretation of wireframe projections based on assigning semantic and numerical depth labels to lines. This method allows us to state necessary and sufficient conditions for the physical realisability of a wireframe projection of a curved object. The presence of linear features provides further constraints on the positions of object vertices. For example, each straight line gives rise to a coplanarity constraint between a set of object vertices.We show that extra information, such as vanishing points, parallel lines or user-entered depth-parity information, is sufficient to uniquely determine the face-circuits in wireframe projections of polyhedra with simple trihedral vertices. In fact, a polyhedron with simple trihedral vertices can be unambiguously reconstructed from its 3D wireframe model.