Interpreting Line Drawings of Objects with K-Vertices

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  • GMP '04 Proceedings of the Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004
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  • 2004

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Abstract

As part of the goal of automatic creation of B-rep modelsof engineering objects from freehand sketches, we seekto take a single line drawing (with hidden lines removed),and from it deduce an initial 3D geometric realisation ofthe visible part of the drawn object. Junction and line labels,and provisional depth coordinates, are key parts of thisfrontal geometry.Many methods for producing frontal geometry onlywork correctly for drawings of trihedral objects. However,non-trihedral K-vertices commonly occur in engineeringobjects. We analyse the performance of a line-labellingmethod applied to K-vertices, and show why methods ignoringgeometric considerations are inadequate.We give a new approach which produces both junctionlabels and provisional depth coordinates without any priorknowledge. Our results show that even a naïve implementationoutperforms previous methods.