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We propose an end-to-end pipeline to robustly generate high-quality, high-order and coarse quadrilateral meshes on CAD models. This kind of mesh enables the use of high-order analysis techniques such as high-order finite element methods or…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Mattéo Couplet , Maxence Reberol , Jean-François Remacle

The generation of quadrilateral-dominant meshes is a cornerstone of professional 3D content creation. However, existing generative models generate quad meshes by first generating triangle meshes and then merging triangles into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jian Liu , Chunshi Wang , Song Guo , Haohan Weng , Zhen Zhou , Zhiqi Li , Jiaao Yu , Yiling Zhu , Jing Xu , Biwen Lei , Zhuo Chen , Chunchao Guo

A generalization of vector fields, referred to as N-direction fields or cross fields when N = 4, has been recently introduced and studied for geometry processing, with applications in quadrilateral (quad) meshing, texture mapping, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Ryan Viertel , Braxton Osting

We introduce an algorithm to remesh triangle meshes representing developable surfaces to planar quad dominant meshes. The output of our algorithm consists of planar quadrilateral (PQ) strips that are aligned to principal curvature…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Floor Verhoeven , Amir Vaxman , Tim Hoffmann , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

High-order quadrilateral meshes offer superior accuracy and computational efficiency in numerical simulations. However, existing methods struggle to simultaneously preserve boundary/interface features, ensure high quality, and achieve…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yongjia Weng , Lufeng Liu , Zhonggui Chen , Xuan Zhou , Juan Cao

In the current practices of both industry and academia, the convergence and accuracy of finite element calculations are closely related to the methods and quality of mesh generation. For years, the research on high-quality mesh generation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Hui Zhao

Streamline-based quad meshing algorithms use smooth cross fields to partition surfaces into quadrilateral regions by tracing cross field separatrices. In practice, re-entrant corners and misalignment of singularities lead to small regions…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Ryan Viertel , Braxton Osting , Matthew Staten

A novel algorithm that produces a quad layout based on imposed set of singularities is proposed. In this paper, we either use singularities that appear naturally, e.g., by minimizing Ginzburg-Landau energy, or use as an input user-defined…

Despite recent progress, recovering parametric CAD construction sequences from geometric input, such as meshes or point clouds, is a key challenge for design and manufacturing, as existing CAD reconstruction and generation methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ghadi Nehme , Eamon Whalen , Faez Ahmed

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

The rapid growth of 3D content from modern reconstruction and generative pipelines, such as neural rendering and large-scale 3D asset generation, has led to an abundance of dense, noisy, and often non-manifold meshes. While these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kunal Bhosikar , Preet Savalia , Lokender Tiwari , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

We present an approach for robust high-order mesh generation specially tailored to streamlined bodies. The method is based on a semi-sructured approach which combines the high quality of structured meshes in the near-field with the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Julian Marcon , Joaquim Peiró , David Moxey , Nico Bergemann , Henry Bucklow , Mark Gammon

This work proposes a novel metric based algorithm for quadrilateral mesh generating. Each quad-mesh induces a Riemannian metric satisfying special conditions: the metric is a flat metric with cone signualrites conformal to the original…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Wei Chen , Xiaopeng Zheng , Jingyao Ke , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Xianfeng Gu

We describe a semi-structured method for the generation of high-order hybrid meshes suited for the simulation of high Reynolds number flows. This is achieved through the use of highly stretched elements in the viscous boundary layers near…

The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , L. Ridgway Scott

We present a method for generating orthogonal quadrilateral meshes subject to user-defined feature alignment and sizing constraints. The approach relies on computing integrable orthogonal frame fields, whose symmetries are implicitly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mattéo Couplet , Alexandre Chemin , David Bommes , Edward Chien

We introduce a smoothing algorithm for triangle, quadrilateral, tetrahedral and hexahedral meshes whose centerpiece is a simple geometric triangle transformation. The first part focuses on the mathematical properties of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet

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

High-quality quadrilateral mesh generation is a fundamental challenge in computer graphics. Traditional optimization-based methods are often constrained by the topological quality of input meshes and suffer from severe efficiency…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuguang Chen , Xinhai Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Yiling Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Dongyu Zhang , Chunchao Guo

This paper introduces a novel, robust, and computationally efficient framework for high-quality quadrilateral mesh generation on general two-dimensional domains. The core of the proposed approach is a novel method for computing cross fields…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jingwen Dai , Zhonghua Qiao , Dong Wang
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