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Many engineering systems require accurate simulations of complex physical systems. Yet, analytical solutions are only available for simple problems, necessitating numerical approximations such as the Finite Element Method (FEM). The cost…

Cell blebs are protrusions of the cell membrane and can be instrumental for cell migration. We derive a continuum model for the mechanical and geometrical aspects of the onset of blebbing in terms of a force balance. It is abstract and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Björn Stinner , Andreas Dedner , Adam Nixon

This paper presents an automated method for 3D character skeleton extraction that can be applied for generic 3D shapes. Our work is motivated by the skeleton-based prior work on automatic rigging focused on skeleton extraction and can…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Yong Khoo , Sang Chung

Image-based computer simulation of cardiac function can be used to probe the mechanisms of (patho)physiology, and guide diagnosis and personalized treatment of cardiac diseases. This paradigm requires constructing simulation-ready meshes of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Fanwei Kong , Shawn C. Shadden

We propose a method for constructing generative models of 3D objects from a single 3D mesh and improving them through unsupervised low-shot learning from 2D images. Our method produces a 3D morphable model that represents shape and albedo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Skylar Sutherland , Bernhard Egger , Joshua Tenenbaum

Real-world settings often do not allow acquisition of high-resolution volumetric images for accurate morphological assessment and diagnostic. In clinical practice it is frequently common to acquire only sparse data (e.g. individual slices)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-30 Benjamin Hou , Athanasios Vlontzos , Amir Alansary , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

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…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Ilona D. Kosinska

Advances in imaging technology now provide us with detailed 3D data on gene expression patterns in developing embryos. This information can be used to build predictive mathematical models of embryogenesis. Current modelling approaches are,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-11 Britta Velten , Erkan Uenal , Dagmar Iber

Directly generating 3D meshes, the default representation for 3D shapes in the graphics industry, using auto-regressive (AR) models has become popular these days, thanks to their sharpness, compactness in the generated results, and ability…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiabao Lei , Kewei Shi , Zhihao Liang , Kui Jia

Finite element meshes for 3D models simulating realistic malignant melanoma (MM) growth, incorporating accurate dielectric properties of the skin, have been developed. Numerical simulations illustrate how 3D finite element meshes can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Eric Lindström , Larisa Beilina

Accurate geometric modeling of the aortic valve from 3D CT images is essential for biomechanical analysis and patient-specific simulations to assess valve health or make a preoperative plan. However, it remains challenging to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Linchen Qian , Jiasong Chen , Ruonan Gong , Wei Sun , Minliang Liu , Liang Liang

For linear elastic problems, it is well-known that mesh generation dominates the total analysis time. Different types of methods have been proposed to directly or indirectly alleviate this burden associated with mesh generation. We review…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-01 H. Lian , S. P. A. Bordas , R. Sevilla , R. N. Simpson

A general method is introduced for constructing two-dimensional (2D) surface meshes embedded in three-dimensional (3D) space time, and 3D hypersurface meshes embedded in four-dimensional (4D) space time. In particular, we begin by dividing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Jude T. Anderson , David M. Williams , Andrew Corrigan

Meshes serve as a primary representation for 3D assets. Autoregressive mesh generators serialize faces into sequences and train on truncated segments with sliding-window inference to cope with memory limits. However, this mismatch breaks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Junkai Lin , Hang Long , Huipeng Guo , Jielei Zhang , JiaYi Yang , Tianle Guo , Yang Yang , Jianwen Li , Wenxiao Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Wei Yang

Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

We present 2-D, 3-D, and spherical mesh generators for the Finite Element Method (FEM) using triangular and tetrahedral elements. The mesh nodes are treated as if they were linked by virtual springs that obey Hooke's law. Given the desired…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-20 J. M. Taramón , J. P. Morgan , C. Shi , J. Hasenclever

Automatic mesh-based shape generation is of great interest across a wide range of disciplines, from industrial design to gaming, computer graphics and various other forms of digital art. While most traditional methods focus on primitive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Philip Marcus

In the burgeoning field of medical imaging, precise computation of 3D volume holds a significant importance for subsequent qualitative analysis of 3D reconstructed objects. Combining multivariate calculus, marching cube algorithm, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Quoc-Bao Nguyen-Le , Tuan-Hy Le , Anh-Triet Do

A higher-order accurate finite element method is proposed which uses automatically generated meshes based on implicit level-set data for the description of boundaries and interfaces in two and three dimensions. The method is an alternative…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-06 T. P. Fries