A New Method of Interactive Marker-Driven Free form Mesh Deformation

  • Authors:
  • Difei Lu;Ying Zhang;Xiuzi Ye

  • Affiliations:
  • Zhejiang University, China;Zhejiang University, China;Zhejiang University, China

  • Venue:
  • GMAI '06 Proceedings of the conference on Geometric Modeling and Imaging: New Trends
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new scheme for markerdriven free form global mesh deformation without manually establishing a skeleton or freeform deformation domain beforehand. It allows a user to deform a given mesh interactively and intuitively. Firstly markers are placed at existing mesh vertices. Then user moves markers as constrained handles in a free form style. Next a global shape deformation is obtained by reconstructing the shape corresponding to the translated markers. Finally the system smooth the deformed mesh to get desired result. Our approach successfully conveys a sense of rigidity of the mesh, which is difficult in space-warp approaches. We demonstrate that our system can be used to intuitively deform a complex mesh with very little effort. We also show that our approach of the deformation provides a natural way to interpolate between key frames, allowing production of simple key framed animations.