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Triangles are everywhere in the virtual world. The surface of nearly every graphical object is saved as a triangular mesh on a computer. Light effects and movements of virtual objects are computed on the basis of triangulations. Besides…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet

The problem of polycube construction or deformation is an essential problem in computer graphics. In this paper, we present a robust, simple, efficient and automatic algorithm to deform the meshes of arbitrary shapes into their polycube…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Hui Zhao , Na Lei , Xuan Li , Peng Zeng , Ke Xu , Xianfeng Gu

One remarkable feature of virtual element methods (VEMs) is their great flexibility and robustness when used on almost arbitrary polytopal meshes. This very feature makes it widely used in both fitted and unfitted mesh methods. Despite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Ruchi Guo

The construction of anisotropic triangulations is desirable for various applications, such as the numerical solving of partial differential equations and the representation of surfaces in graphics. To solve this notoriously difficult…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Mael Rouxel-Labbé , Mathijs Wintraecken

This paper provides triangular spherical designs for the complex unit sphere $\Omega^d$ by exploiting the natural correspondence between the complex unit sphere in $d$ dimensions and the real unit sphere in $2d-1$. The existence of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-25 Yu Guang Wang , Robert S. Womersley , Hau-Tieng Wu , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We propose a new approach for controlling the characteristics of certain mesh faces during optimization of high-order curved meshes. The practical goals are tangential relaxation along initially aligned curved boundaries and internal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Z. Tomov

We propose an algorithm to reconstruct explicit polygonal meshes from discretely sampled Signed Distance Function (SDF) data, which is especially effective at recovering sharp features. Building on the traditional Dual Contouring of Hermite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiana Carrera , Ningna Wang , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein , Silvia Sellán

Reducing the triangle count in complex 3D models is a basic geometry preprocessing step in graphics pipelines such as efficient rendering and interactive editing. However, most existing mesh simplification methods exhibit a few issues.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Seonghun Oh , Xiaodi Yuan , Xinyue Wei , Ruoxi Shi , Fanbo Xiang , Minghua Liu , Hao Su

Voronoi diagrams, and their more general weighted counterpart, power diagrams, are fundamental geometric constructs with wide-ranging applications. Recently, they have gained renewed attention in mesh-based neural rendering. Despite being…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bernardo Taveira , Carl Lindström , Maryam Fatemi , Lars Hammarstrand , Fredrik Kahl

Recent works in geometric deep learning have introduced neural networks that allow performing inference tasks on three-dimensional geometric data by defining convolution, and sometimes pooling, operations on triangle meshes. These methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Francesco Milano , Antonio Loquercio , Antoni Rosinol , Davide Scaramuzza , Luca Carlone

We present and analyze a new finite element method for solving interface problems on a triangular grid. The method locally modifies a given triangulation such that the interfaces are accurately resolved and the maximal angle condition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Peter Gangl , Ulrich Langer

In this paper, we consider the problem of improving 2D triangle meshes tessellating planar regions. We propose a new variational principle for improving 2D triangle meshes where the energy functional is a convex function over the angle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Jian Sun , Wei Chen , Junhui Deng , Jie Gao , Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo

Information transfer between triangle meshes is of great importance in computer graphics and geometry processing. To facilitate this process, a smooth and accurate map is typically required between the two meshes. While such maps can…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Danielle Ezuz , Justin Solomon , Mirela Ben-Chen

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a structure-preserving numerical framework for partial differential equations solution, particularly suitable for simplicial meshes. A longstanding and widespread assumption has been that DEC requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mamdouh S. Mohamed , Anil N. Hirani , Ravi Samtaney

We describe an efficient algorithm to compute a conformally equivalent metric for a discrete surface, possibly with boundary, exhibiting prescribed Gaussian curvature at all interior vertices and prescribed geodesic curvature along the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Marcel Campen , Ryan Capouellez , Hanxiao Shen , Leyi Zhu , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin

Convex optimization is a well-established research area with applications in almost all fields. Over the decades, multiple approaches have been proposed to solve convex programs. The development of interior-point methods allowed solving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Ahmed Douik , Babak Hassibi

We present a new algorithm that produces a well-spaced superset of points conforming to a given input set in any dimension with guaranteed optimal output size. We also provide an approximate Delaunay graph on the output points. Our…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Gary L. Miller , Donald R. Sheehy , Ameya Velingker

This paper introduces the MeshAC package, which generates three-dimensional adaptive meshes tailored for the efficient and robust implementation of multiscale coupling methods. While Delaunay triangulation is commonly used for mesh…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Kejie Fu , Mingjie Liao , Yangshuai Wang , Jianjun Chen , Lei Zhang

Lattice structures have been widely used in applications due to their superior mechanical properties. To fabricate such structures, a geometric processing step called triangulation is often employed to transform them into the STL format…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Qiang Zou , Yunzhu Gao

The factorization of skew-symmetric matrices is a critically understudied area of dense linear algebra, particularly in comparison to that of general and symmetric matrices. While some algorithms can be adapted from the symmetric case, the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ishna Satyarth , Chao Yin , Devin A. Matthews , Maggie Myers , Robert van de Geijn , RuQing G. Xu