Loop subdivision surface based progressive interpolation

  • Authors:
  • Fu-Hua Cheng;Feng-Tao Fan;Shu-Hua Lai;Cong-Lin Huang;Jia-Xi Wang;Jun-Hai Yong

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A new method for constructing interpolating Loop subdivision surfaces is presented. The new method is an extension of the progressive interpolation technique for B-splines. Given a triangular mesh M, the idea is to iteratively upgrade the vertices of M to generate a new control mesh M such that limit surface of M would interpolate M. It can be shown that the iterative process is convergent for Loop subdivision surfaces. Hence, the method is well-defined. The new method has the advantages of both a local method and a global method, i.e., it can handle meshes of any size and any topology while generating smooth interpolating subdivision surfaces that faithfully resemble the shape of the given meshes. The meshes considered here can be open or closed.