On C2 triangle/quad subdivision

  • Authors:
  • Scott Schaefer;Joe Warren

  • Affiliations:
  • Rice University, Houston, TX;Rice University, Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this article, we present a subdivision scheme for mixed triangle/quad meshes that is C2 everywhere except for isolated, extraordinary points. The rules that we describe are the same as Stam and Loop's scheme [2003] except that we perform an unzipping pass prior to subdivision. This simple modification improves the smoothness along the ordinary triangle/quad boundary from C1 to C2, and creates a scheme capable of subdividing arbitrary meshes. Finally, we end with a proof based on Levin and Levin's [2003] joint spectral radius calculation to show our scheme is indeed C2 along the triangle/quad boundary.