Pattern-aware shape deformation using sliding dockers

  • Authors:
  • Martin Bokeloh;Michael Wand;Vladlen Koltun;Hans-Peter Seidel

  • Affiliations:
  • MPI Informatik;Saarland University and MPI Informatik;Stanford University;MPI Informatik

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 SIGGRAPH Asia Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new structure-aware shape deformation technique. The key idea is to detect continuous and discrete regular patterns and ensure that these patterns are preserved during free-form deformation. We propose a variational deformation model that preserves these structures, and a discrete algorithm that adaptively inserts or removes repeated elements in regular patterns to minimize distortion. As a tool for such structural adaptation, we introduce sliding dockers, which represent repeatable elements that fit together seamlessly for arbitrary repetition counts. We demonstrate the presented approach on a number of complex 3D models from commercial shape libraries.