Computing surface offsets and bisectors using a sampled constraint solver

  • Authors:
  • David E. Johnson;Elaine Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Utah;University of Utah

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2009
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes SCSolver, a geometric constraint solver based on adaptive sampling of an underlying constraint space. The solver is demonstrated on the computation of the offset to a surface as well as the computation of the bisector between two surfaces. The adaptive constraint sampling generates a solution manifold through a generalized dual-contouring approach appropriate for higher-dimensional problems. Experimental results show that the SCSolver approach can compute solutions for complex input geometry at interactive rates for each example application.