Isotropic remeshing with fast and exact computation of Restricted Voronoi Diagram

  • Authors:
  • Dong-Ming Yan;Bruno Lévy;Yang Liu;Feng Sun;Wenping Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China and INRIA, Nancy, France;INRIA, Nancy, France;INRIA, Nancy, France;The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • SGP '09 Proceedings of the Symposium on Geometry Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a new isotropic remeshing method, based on Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT). Constructing CVT requires to repeatedly compute Restricted Voronoi Diagram (RVD), defined as the intersection between a 3D Voronoi diagram and an input mesh surface. Existing methods use some approximations of RVD. In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm that computes RVD exactly and robustly. As a consequence, we achieve better remeshing quality than approximation-based approaches, without sacrificing efficiency. Our method for RVD computation uses a simple procedure and a kd-tree to quickly identify and compute the intersection of each triangle face with its incident Voronoi cells. Its time complexity is O(mlogn), where n is the number of seed points and m is the number of triangles of the input mesh. Fast convergence of CVT is achieved using a quasi-Newton method, which proved much faster than Lloyd's iteration. Examples are presented to demonstrate the better quality of remeshing results with our method than with the state-of-art approaches.