Parallel feature-preserving mesh smoothing

  • Authors:
  • Xiangmin Jiao;Phillip J. Alexander

  • Affiliations:
  • Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a parallel approach for optimizing surface meshes by redistributing vertices on a feature-aware higher-order reconstruction of a triangulated surface. Our method is based on a novel extension of the fundamental quadric, called the medial quadric. This quadric helps solve some basic geometric problems, including detection of ridges and corners, computation of one-sided normals along ridges, and construction of higher-order approximations of triangulated surfaces. Our new techniques are easy to parallelize and hence are particularly beneficial for large-scale applications.