Strong Thinning and Polyhedrization of the Surface of a Voxel Object

  • Authors:
  • Jasmine Burguet;Rémy Malgouyres

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DGCI '00 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We first propose for digital surfaces a notion analogous to the notion of strong homotopy which exists in 3D. We presentan associated parallel thinning algorithm. The surface of an object composed of voxels is a seto f surfels (faces of voxels) which is the boundary between this object and its complementary. But this representation is not the classical one to visualize and to work on 3D objects, in frameworks like Computer Assisted Geometric Design (CAGD). For this reason we propose a method for passing efficiently from a representation to the other. More precisely, we present a three-step algorithm to polyhedrize the boundary of a voxel object which uses the parallel thinning algorithm presented above. This method is specifically adapted to digital objects and is much more efficient than such existing methods. Some examples are shown, and a method to make the reverse operation (discretization) is briefly presented.