G2 tensor product splines over extraordinary vertices

  • Authors:
  • Charles Loop;Scott Schaefer

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research;Texas A&M University

  • Venue:
  • SGP '08 Proceedings of the Symposium on Geometry Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a second order smooth filling of an n-valent Catmull-Clark spline ring with n biseptic patches. While an underdetermined biseptic solution to this problem has appeared previously, we make several advances in this paper. Most notably, we cast the problem as a constrained minimization and introduce a novel quadratic energy functional whose absolute minimum of zero is achieved for bicubic polynomials. This means that for the regular 4-valent case, we reproduce the bicubic B-splines. In other cases, the resulting surfaces are aesthetically well behaved. We extend our constrained minimization framework to handle the case of input mesh with boundary.