A smooth surface interpolation to 3D triangulations

Authors:
Shaoming Wang
Affiliations:
Ansoft Corporation, 4675 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara, CA
Venue:
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Special issue on proceedings of the international symposium on computational mathematics and applications
Year:
2004

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Abstract

We present a general method for automatic reconstruction of accurate, concise surface models from scattered range data in R3 based on Clough-Tocher split scheme. The method can be used in a variety of applications such as reverse engineering--the automatic generation of CAD models from physical objects. An advantage of the method is its ability to model surfaces of arbitrary topological type and it is easy to implement, and it can be fit to scattered range data effectively. An algorithm is presented. Some examples are given.