Constraint-based fairing of surface meshes

  • Authors:
  • Klaus Hildebrandt;Konrad Polthier

  • Affiliations:
  • Freie Universität Berlin;Freie Universität Berlin

  • Venue:
  • SGP '07 Proceedings of the fifth Eurographics symposium on Geometry processing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a constraint-based method for the fairing of surface meshes. The main feature of our approach is that the resulting smoothed surface remains within a prescribed distance to the input mesh. For example, specifying the maximum distance in the order of the measuring precision of a laser scanner allows noise to be removed while preserving the accuracy of the scan. The approach is modeled as an optimization problem where a fairness measure is minimized subject to constraints that control the spatial deviation of the surface. The problem is efficiently solved by an active set Newton method.