Hierarchical multiresolution reconstruction of shell surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Guoliang Xu;Robert J. Holt;Arun N. Netravali

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA;State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China;Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA;Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present an adaptive, hierarchical Hh-multiresolution reconstruction algorithm to model shell surface objects from a matched pair of triangulated surfaces. Shell surfaces are an interval of contours of trivariate functions with prismatic support. In the H-direction, a hierarchical representation of the scaffold is constructed. For any adaptively extracted scaffold from the hierarchy, a sequence of functions in the h-direction (regularly subdivided mesh) is constructed so that their contours approximate the input shell to within a given error ε. The shell surfaces can be made to capture sharp curve creases on the shell while being C1 smooth everywhere else. Using an interval of iso-contours of smooth trivariate spline functions, rather than a pair of inner and outer surface splines, one avoids the need for interference checks between the inner and outer surface boundaries.