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We propose a method for computing integrable orthogonal frame fields on planar surfaces. Frames and their symmetries are implicitly represented using orthogonally decomposable (odeco) tensors. To formulate an integrability criterion, we…
This paper introduces a method to synthesize a 3D tensor field within a constrained geometric domain represented as a tetrahedral mesh. Whereas previous techniques optimize for isotropic fields, we focus on anisotropic tensor fields that…
Field-guided parametrization methods have proven effective for quad meshing of surfaces; these methods compute smooth cross fields to guide the meshing process and then integrate the fields to construct a discrete mesh. A key challenge in…
We present a method for designing smooth cross fields on surfaces that automatically align to sharp features of an underlying geometry. Our approach introduces a novel class of energies based on a representation of cross fields in the…
Structured meshes, composed of quadrilateral elements in 2D and hexahedral elements in 3D, are widely used in industrial applications and engineering simulations due to their regularity and superior accuracy in finite element analysis.…
We use circle-packing methods to generate quadrilateral meshes for polygonal domains, with guaranteed bounds both on the quality and the number of elements. We show that these methods can generate meshes of several types: (1) the elements…
In this paper, we introduce and study a remarkable class of mechanisms formed by a $3 \times 3$ arrangement of rigid quadrilateral faces with revolute joints at the common edges. In contrast to the well-studied Kokotsakis meshes with a…
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…
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…
Visualization of implicit surfaces is an actively researched topic. While raytracing can produce high quality images, it is not well suited for creating a quick preview of the surface. Indirect algorithms (e.g. Marching Cubes) create an…
A new parametric surface representation is proposed that interpolates the vertices of a given closed mesh of arbitrary topology. Smoothly connecting quadrilateral patches are created by blending local, multi-sided quadratic interpolants. In…
We present a discrete theory for modeling developable surfaces as quadrilateral meshes satisfying simple angle constraints. The basis of our model is a lesser known characterization of developable surfaces as manifolds that can be…
We analyze actual methods that generate smooth frame fields both in 2D and in 3D. We formalize the 2D problem by representing frames as functions (as it was done in 3D), and show that the derived optimization problem is the one that…
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…
We present a computational approach for unfolding 3D shapes isometrically into the plane as a single patch without overlapping triangles. This is a hard, sometimes impossible, problem, which existing methods are forced to soften by allowing…
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…
Recent point-based differentiable rendering techniques have achieved significant success in high-fidelity reconstruction and fast rendering. However, due to the unstructured nature of point-based representations, they are difficult to apply…
The Intrinsic Surface Finite Element Method (ISFEM) was recently proposed to solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on surfaces. ISFEM proceeds by writing the PDE with respect to a local coordinate system anchored to the surface and…
The question of representation of 3D geometry is of vital importance when it comes to leveraging the recent advances in the field of machine learning for geometry processing tasks. For common unstructured surface meshes state-of-the-art…
Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…