Freeform surfaces from single curved panels

  • Authors:
  • Helmut Pottmann;Alexander Schiftner;Pengbo Bo;Heinz Schmiedhofer;Wenping Wang;Niccolo Baldassini;Johannes Wallner

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Wien;TU Wien / Evolute;TU Wien / University of Hong Kong;TU Wien;University of Hong Kong;RFR, Paris;TU Graz

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Motivated by applications in architecture and manufacturing, we discuss the problem of covering a freeform surface by single curved panels. This leads to the new concept of semi-discrete surface representation, which constitutes a link between smooth and discrete surfaces. The basic entity we are working with is the developable strip model. It is the semi-discrete equivalent of a quad mesh with planar faces, or a conjugate parametrization of a smooth surface. We present a B-spline based optimization framework for efficient computing with D-strip models. In particular we study conical and circular models, which semi-discretize the network of principal curvature lines, and which enjoy elegant geometric properties. Together with geodesic models and cylindrical models they offer a rich source of solutions for surface panelization problems.