General planar quadrilateral mesh design using conjugate direction field

  • Authors:
  • Yang Liu;Weiwei Xu;Jun Wang;Lifeng Zhu;Baining Guo;Falai Chen;Guoping Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Asia;Microsoft Research Asia;University of Science and Technology of China;Peking University;Microsoft Research Asia;University of Science and Technology of China;Peking University

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

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Abstract

We present a novel method to approximate a freeform shape with a planar quadrilateral (PQ) mesh for modeling architectural glass structures. Our method is based on the study of conjugate direction fields (CDF) which allow the presence of ±κ/4(κ ε Z) singularities. Starting with a triangle discretization of a freeform shape, we first compute an as smooth as possible conjugate direction field satisfying the user's directional and angular constraints, then apply mixed-integer quadrangulation and planarization techniques to generate a PQ mesh which approximates the input shape faithfully. We demonstrate that our method is effective and robust on various 3D models.