Sharp Features on Multiresolution Subdivision Surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Henning Biermann;Denis Zorin;Ioana M. Martin;Fausto Bernardini

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PG '01 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a method for creating sharp features and trim regions on multiresolution subdivision surfaces along a set of user-defined curves. Operations such as engraving, embossing, and trimming are important in many surface modeling applications. Their implementation, however, is non-trivial due to computational, topological, and smoothness constraints that the underlying surface has to satisfy. The novelty of our work lies in the ability to create sharp features anywhere on a surface and in the fact that the resulting representation remains within the multiresolution subdivision framework. Preserving the origi-nal representation has the advantage that other operations applicable to multiresolution subdivision surfaces can sub-sequently be applied to the edited model. We also introduce an extended set of subdivision rules for Catmull-Clark surfaces that allows the creation of creases along diagonals of control mesh faces.