G1 surface modelling using fourth order geometric flows

  • Authors:
  • Guoliang Xu;Qing Pan

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Lab of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haidian, Zhongguancun Donglu ...;State Key Lab of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haidian, Zhongguancun Donglu ...

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We use three fourth order geometric partial differential equations to efficiently solve several surface modelling problems, including surface blending, N-sided hole filling and free-form surface fitting with the G^1 boundary continuity. The non-linear equations we use include the surface diffusion flow, the quasi surface diffusion flow and the Willmore flow. These non-linear equations are discretized using a mixed finite element method based on a combination of the Loop's basis and the linear basis. The proposed approach is simple, efficient and gives very desirable results.