Blending parametric patches with subdivision surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Li Guiqing;Li Hua

  • Affiliations:
  • Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China;Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper the problem of blending parametric surfaces using subdivision patches is discussed. A new approach, named removing-boundary, is presented to generate piecewise-smooth subdivision surfaces through discarding the outmost quadrilaterals of the open meshes derived by each subdivision step. Then the approach is employed both to blend parametric bicubic B-spline surfaces and to fill n-sided holes. It is easy to produce piecewise-smooth subdivision surfaces with both convex and concave corners on the boundary, and limit surfaces are guaranteed to be C2 continuous on the boundaries except for a few singular points by the removing-boundary approach. Thus the blending method is very efficient and the blending surface generated is of good effect.