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In this paper, we propose a novel parameterization method for genus-one and multiply connected genus-zero surfaces, called periodic conformal flattening. The conformal energy minimization technique is utilized to compute the desired…

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This paper presents a method to compute the {\it quasi-conformal parameterization} (QCMC) for a multiply-connected 2D domain or surface. QCMC computes a quasi-conformal map from a multiply-connected domain $S$ onto a punctured disk $D_S$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Kin Tat Ho , Lok Ming Lui

We present a simple, accurate method for computing singular or nearly singular integrals on a smooth, closed surface, such as layer potentials for harmonic functions evaluated at points on or near the surface. The integral is computed with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-10 J. Thomas Beale , Wenjun Ying , Jason R. Wilson

This paper solves the problem of computing conformal structures of general 2-manifolds represented as triangle meshes. We compute conformal structures in the following way: first compute homology bases from simplicial complex structures,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xianfeng Gu , Shing-Tung Yau

Seamless global parametrization of surfaces is a key operation in geometry processing, e.g. for high-quality quad mesh generation. A common approach is to prescribe the parametric domain structure, in particular the locations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Marcel Campen , Hanxiao Shen , Jiaran Zhou , Denis Zorin

Surface parameterizations have been widely applied to computer graphics and digital geometry processing. In this paper, we propose a novel stretch energy minimization (SEM) algorithm for the computation of equiareal parameterizations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Mei-Heng Yueh , Wen-Wei Lin , Chin-Tien Wu , Shing-Tung Yau

Lipid vesicles appear ubiquitously in biological systems. Understanding how the mechanical and intermolecular interations deform vesicle membrane is a fundamental question in biophysics. In this article we developed a fast algorithm to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-17 Michael Mikucki , Y. C. Zhou

Density-equalizing maps are a class of mapping methods in which the shape deformation is driven by prescribed density information. In recent years, they have been widely used for data visualization on planar domains and planar…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhiyuan Lyu , Lok Ming Lui , Gary P. T. Choi

The current paper discusses some new results about conformal polynomic surface parameterizations. A new theorem is proved: Given a conformal polynomic surface parameterization of any degree it must be harmonic on each component. As a first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-28 David Pérez Fernández

We propose an efficient method to compute a small set of integer-constrained cone singularities, which induce a rotationally seamless conformal parameterization with low distortion. Since the problem only involves discrete variables, i.e.,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Wei Du , Qing Fang , Ligang Liu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Surface parametrization is a crucial part in various fields, having applications in computer graphic, medical imaging, scientific computing and computational engineering. The majority of surface parametrization approaches are performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ka Ho Lai , Lok Ming Lui

Surface parameterizations are widely applied in computer graphics, medical imaging and transformation optics. In this paper, we rigorously derive the gradient vector and Hessian matrix of the discrete conformal energy for spherical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Zhong-Heng Tan , Tiexiang Li , Wen-Wei Lin , Shing-Tung Yau

We recently found that the electromagnetic scattering problem can be very fast in an approach expressing the fields in terms of orthonormal basis functions. In this paper we apply computational conformal geometry with the conformal energy…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-19 Pengcheng Wan , Zhong-Heng Tan , S. T. Chui , Tiexiang Li , S. T. Yau

In this paper, we introduce a definition of discrete conformality for triangulated surfaces with flat cone metrics and describe an algorithm for solving the problem of prescribing curvature, that is to deform the metric discrete conformally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu , Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo

The parameterization of closed surfaces typically requires either multiple charts or a non-planar domain to achieve a seamless global mapping. In this paper, we propose a numerical framework for the seamless parameterization of genus-zero…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Shu-Yung Liu , Mei-Heng Yueh

With the advancement of computer technology, there is a surge of interest in effective mapping methods for objects in higher-dimensional spaces. To establish a one-to-one correspondence between objects, higher-dimensional quasi-conformal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Daoping Zhang , Gary P. T. Choi , Jianping Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

This paper proposes a novel method for computing bijective density-equalizing quasiconformal (DEQ) flattening maps for multiply-connected open surfaces. In conventional density-equalizing maps, shape deformations are solely driven by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhiyuan Lyu , Gary P. T. Choi , Lok Ming Lui

Given a unirational parameterization of a surface, we present a general algorithm to determine a birational parameterization without using parameterization algorithms. Additionally, if the surface is assumed to have a birational…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Jorge Caravantes , Sonia Pérez-Díaz , J. Rafael Sendra

Smooth parametrization consists in a subdivision of the mathematical objects under consideration into simple pieces, and then parametric representation of each piece, while keeping control of high order derivatives. The main goal of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Y. Yomdin

The advancements in neural rendering have increased the need for techniques that enable intuitive editing of 3D objects represented as neural implicit surfaces. This paper introduces a novel neural algorithm for parameterizing neural…

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