Representation of non-manifold objects

  • Authors:
  • Leila De Floriani;Franco Morando;Enrico Puppo

  • Affiliations:
  • Universita di Genova, Genova - Italy;Universita di Genova, Genova - Italy;Universita di Genova, Genova - Italy

  • Venue:
  • SM '03 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In our previous work [2], we have shown that a non-manifold, mixed-dimensional object described by simplicial complexes can be decomposed in a unique way into regular components, all belonging to a well-understood class. Based on such decomposition, we define here a two-level topological data structure for representing non-manifold objects in any dimension: the first level represents components; while the second level represents the connectivity relation among them. The resulting data structure is compact and scalable, allowing for the efficient treatment of singularities without burdening well-behaved parts of a complex with excessive space overheads.