Geometry curves: A compact representation for 3D shapes

  • Authors:
  • Guo Li;Ligang Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

  • Venue:
  • Graphical Models
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We propose a novel compact surface representation, namely geometry curves, which record the essence of shape geometry and topology. The geometry curves mainly contain two parts: the interior and boundary lines. The interior lines, which correspond to the feature lines, record the geometry information of the 3D shapes; the boundary lines, which correspond to the boundary or fundamental polygons, record the topology information of the 3D shapes. As a vector representation, geometry curves can depict highly complex geometry details. The concept of geometry curves can be utilized in many potential applications, e.g., mesh compression, shape modeling and editing, animation, and level of details. Furthermore, we develop a procedure for automatically constructing geometry curves which obtain an excellent approximation to the original mesh.