Construction of subdivision surfaces by fourth-order geometric flows with G1 boundary conditions

  • Authors:
  • Guoliang Xu;Qing Pan

  • Affiliations:
  • LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

  • Venue:
  • GMP'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Geometric Modeling and Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a method for constructing Loop's subdivision surface patches with given G1 boundary conditions and a given topology of control polygon, using several fourth-order geometric partial differential equations. These equations are solved by a mixed finite element method in a function space defined by the extended Loop's subdivision scheme. The method is flexible to the shape of the boundaries, and there is no limitation on the number of boundary curves and on the topology of the control polygon. Several properties for the basis functions of the finite element space are developed.