Q-Complex: Efficient non-manifold boundary representation with inclusion topology

  • Authors:
  • Long Zeng;Yong-Jin Liu;Sang Hun Lee;Matthew Ming-Fai Yuen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China;TNList, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Graduate School of Automotive Engineering, Kookmin University, Republic of Korea;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The interpretation of auxiliary entities as boundary entities in previous non-manifold boundary (NMB) representations may change a model's intended topology and increase the complexity of the corresponding data structure. In this paper, entities appearing in a modeling process are classified into boundary and non-boundary entities. Non-boundary entities are usually embedded into embedding-space entities. These embedding relationships are described by inclusion topology. To support inclusion topology, a new mathematical framework-quasi-cell-complex, as well as a topological data structure-Q-Complex, are proposed. Quasi-cell-complex is an extension of cell-complex with inclusion topology supported. Q-Complex is an NMB representation, in which a new topological entity-embedder is created for inclusion topology and zone/disk is adopted to capture the complete adjacencies around a vertex. Thus, Q-Complex allows full adjacencies, incidence-ordering, and inclusion relationships to be derived, and the efficiency of most basic queries is several times faster than most state-of-the-art NMB representations, without increasing storage. Additionally, the benefits of inclusion topology for shape modeling and feature modeling are explored.