SMI 2012: Full Pattern mapping with quad-pattern-coverable quad-meshes

  • Authors:
  • Shiyu Hu;Qing Xing;Ergun Akleman;Jianer Chen;Jonathan Gross

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M University, United States;Texas A&M University, United States;Texas A&M University, United States;Texas A&M University, United States;Columbia University, United States

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We show that for every surface of positive genus, there exist many quadrilateral manifold meshes that can be texture-mapped with locally translated copies of a single square-texture pattern. This implies, for instance, that every positive-genus surface can be covered seamlessly with any of the 17 plane symmetric wallpaper patterns. We identify sufficient conditions for meshes to be classified as ''quad-pattern-coverable'', and we present several methods to construct such meshes. Moreover, we identify some mesh operations that preserve the quad-pattern-coverability property. For instance, since vertex insertion remeshing, which is the remeshing operation behind Catmull-Clark subdivision, preserves quad-pattern-coverability, it is possible to cover any surface of positive genus with iteratively finer versions of the same texture.