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Conformal surface parameterization is useful in graphics, imaging and visualization, with applications to texture mapping, atlas construction, registration, remeshing and so on. With the increasing capability in scanning and storing data,…

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Geometric Deep Learning has recently made striking progress with the advent of continuous deep implicit fields. They allow for detailed modeling of watertight surfaces of arbitrary topology while not relying on a 3D Euclidean grid,…

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Triangulations are an ubiquitous input for the finite element community. However, most raw triangulations obtained by imaging techniques are unsuitable as-is for finite element analysis. In this paper, we give a robust pipeline for handling…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Pierre-Alexandre Beaufort , Christophe Geuzaine , Jean-François Remacle

We introduce Neural Marching Cubes (NMC), a data-driven approach for extracting a triangle mesh from a discretized implicit field. Classical MC is defined by coarse tessellation templates isolated to individual cubes. While more refined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhiqin Chen , Hao Zhang

We investigate discrete spin transformations, a geometric framework to manipulate surface meshes by controlling mean curvature. Applications include surface fairing -- flowing a mesh onto say, a reference sphere -- and mesh extrusion --…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Loic Le Folgoc , Daniel C. Castro , Jeremy Tan , Bishesh Khanal , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ian Walker , Amir Alansary , Ben Glocker

This study presents a generalized multiscale multimesh finite element method ($\text{M}^2$-FEM) that addresses several long-standing challenges in the numerical simulation of integral structural theories, often used to model multiscale and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Wei Ding , Sansit Patnaik , Fabio Semperlotti

This paper presents an immersed, isogeometric finite element framework to predict the response of multi-material, multi-physics problems with complex geometries using locally refined discretizations. To circumvent the need to generate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Mathias Schmidt , Lise Noel , Keenan Doble , John A. Evans , Kurt Maute

Geophysical model domains typically contain irregular, complex fractal-like boundaries and physical processes that act over a wide range of scales. Constructing geographically constrained boundary-conforming spatial discretizations of these…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-03-27 Adam S. Candy

Solving complex Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) accurately and efficiently is an essential and challenging problem in all scientific and engineering disciplines. Mesh movement methods provide the capability to improve the accuracy of…

Many tasks in geometry processing are modeled as variational problems solved numerically using the finite element method. For solid shapes, this requires a volumetric discretization, such as a boundary conforming tetrahedral mesh.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Silvia Sellán , Herng Yi Cheng , Yuming Ma , Mitchell Dembowski , Alec Jacobson

Many time-dependent problems in the field of computational fluid dynamics can be solved using space-time methods. However, such methods can encounter issues with computational cost and robustness. In order to address these issues,…

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Localized features such as singularities, sharp gradients, discontinuities, and moving sources require adaptive finite element discretizations. Conventional refinement strategies introduce significant computational overhead through…

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We prove that a planar $C^2$-regular boundary $\Gamma$ can always be parameterized with its closest point projection $\pi$ over a certain collection of edges $\Gamma_h$ in an ambient triangulation, by making simple assumptions on the…

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A completely well-centered tetrahedral mesh is a triangulation of a three dimensional domain in which every tetrahedron and every triangle contains its circumcenter in its interior. Such meshes have applications in scientific computing and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-08-06 Evan VanderZee , Anil N. Hirani , Damrong Guoy

Boundary element methods (BEM) reduce a partial differential equation in a domain to an integral equation on the domain's boundary. They are particularly attractive for solving problems on unbounded domains, but handling the dense matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Steffen Börm

Harmonic decomposition of surfaces, such as spherical and spheroidal harmonics, is used to analyze morphology, reconstruct, and generate surface inclusions of particulate microstructures. However, obtaining high-quality meshes of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mahmoud Shaqfa

We provide a new approach for computing integrals over hypersurfaces in the level set framework. The method is based on the discretization (via simple Riemann sums) of the classical formulation used in the level set framework, with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Catherine Kublik , Richard Tsai

With the advancement in 3D scanning technology, there has been a surge of interest in the use of point clouds in science and engineering. To facilitate the computations and analyses of point clouds, prior works have considered…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Gary P. T. Choi , Yechen Liu , Lok Ming Lui

Mapping a shape to some parametric domain is a fundamental tool in graphics and scientific computing. In practice, a map between two shapes is commonly represented by two meshes with same connectivity and different embedding. The standard…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Marco Livesu

In this paper we propose a method to generate suitably refined finite element meshes using neural networks. As a model problem we consider a linear elasticity problem on a planar domain (possibly with holes) having a polygonal boundary. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Chiu Ling Chan , Felix Scholz , Thomas Takacs