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This paper tackles the challenging problem of constrained hexahedral meshing. An algorithm is introduced to build combinatorial hexahedral meshes whose boundary facets exactly match a given quadrangulation of the topological sphere. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Kilian Verhetsel , Jeanne Pellerin , Jean-François Remacle

This paper presents a new scalable parallelization scheme to generate the 3D Delaunay triangulation of a given set of points. Our first contribution is an efficient serial implementation of the incremental Delaunay insertion algorithm. A…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Célestin Marot , Jeanne Pellerin , Jean-François Remacle

Given a tetrahedral mesh and objective functionals measuring the mesh quality which take into account the shape, size, and orientation of the mesh elements, our aim is to improve the mesh quality as much as possible. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Franco Dassi , Lennard Kamenski , Patricio Farrell , Hang Si

Recent developments for mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of biomolecular systems raise new demands for qualified, stable, and efficient surface meshing, especially in implicit-solvent modeling. In our former work, we have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Tiantian Liu , Minxin Chen , Benzhuo Lu

Meshes composed of well-centered simplices have nice orthogonal dual meshes (the dual Voronoi diagram). This is useful for certain numerical algorithms that prefer such primal-dual mesh pairs. We prove that well-centered meshes also have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-25 Evan VanderZee , Anil N. Hirani , Damrong Guoy , Edgar Ramos

The request for high-quality solutions continually grows in a world where more and more tasks are executed through computers. This also counts for fields such as engineering, computer graphics, etc., which use meshes to solve their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Luca Schaller

In this paper a local Fourier analysis for multigrid methods on tetrahedral grids is presented. Different smoothers for the discretization of the Laplace operator by linear finite elements on such grids are analyzed. A four-color smoother…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-10-28 B. Gmeiner , T. Gradl , F. Gaspar , U. Rüde

A family of quadratic finite volume method (FVM) schemes are constructed and analyzed over tetrahedral meshes. In order to prove stability and error estimate, we propose the minimum V-angle condition on tetrahedral meshes, and the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Peng Yang , Xiang Wang , Yonghai Li

Constructing well-behaved Laplacian and mass matrices is essential for tetrahedral mesh processing. Unfortunately, the \emph{de facto} standard linear finite elements exhibit bias on tetrahedralized regular grids, motivating the development…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Alec Jacobson

Despite having achieved real-time performance in mesh construction, most of the current LiDAR odometry and meshing methods may struggle to deal with complex scenes due to relying on explicit meshing schemes. They are usually sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yanjin Zhu , Xin Zheng , Jianke Zhu

A novel meshing scheme, based on regular tetra-kai-decahedron, also referred to as truncated octahedron, cells is presented for use in spatial topology optimization. A tetra-kai-decahedron mesh ensures face connectivity between elements…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Nikhil Singh , Anupam Saxena

We describe a simple geometric transformation of triangles which leads to an efficient and effective algorithm to smooth triangle and tetrahedral meshes. Our focus lies on the convergence properties of this algorithm: we prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet

This paper introduces a method for simplifying textured surface triangle meshes in the wild while maintaining high visual quality. While previous methods achieve excellent results on manifold meshes by using the quadric error metric, they…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Xiaoting Zhang , Cem Yuksel

Extracting meshes that exactly match the zero-level set of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) remains challenging. Sampling-based methods introduce discretization error, while continuous piecewise affine (CPWA) analytic approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Seonghun Oh , Youngjung Uh , Jin-Hwa Kim

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

We present ManifoldPlus, a method for robust and scalable conversion of triangle soups to watertight manifolds. While many algorithms in computer graphics require the input mesh to be a watertight manifold, in practice many meshes designed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Jingwei Huang , Yichao Zhou , Leonidas Guibas

We introduce radiance meshes, a technique for representing radiance fields with constant density tetrahedral cells produced with a Delaunay tetrahedralization. Unlike a Voronoi diagram, a Delaunay tetrahedralization yields simple triangles…

This paper deals with a simple and straightforward procedure for automatic generation of finite-element or finite-volume meshes of spheroidal domains, consisting of tetrahedra. Besides the equation of the boundary, the generated meshes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Vitoriano Ruas

The creation of a volumetric mesh representing the interior of an input polygonal mesh is a common requirement in graphics and computational mechanics applications. Most mesh creation techniques assume that the input surface is not…

Despite the rapidly evolving field of computational electromagnetics, few open-source tools have managed to tackle the problem of automatic mesh generation for properly discretizing the problem of interest into a finite set of elements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Apostolos Spanakis-Misirlis