Design and analysis of planar shape deformation

  • Authors:
  • Siu-Wing Cheng;Herbert Edelsbrunner;Ping Fu;Ka-Po Lam

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science, Duke University, PO Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708, USA and Raindrop Geomagic, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA;Raindrop Geomagic, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA;Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Shape deformation refers to the continuous change of one geometric object to another. We develop a software tool for planning, analyzing and visualizing deformations between two shapes in R^2. The deformation is generated automatically without any user intervention or specification of feature correspondences. A unique property of the tool is the explicit availability of a two-dimensional shape space, which can be used for designing the deformation either automatically by following constraints and objectives or manually by drawing deformation paths.