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Curvature estimation scheme for triangle meshes using biquadratic Bézier patches

✍ Scribed by Anshuman Razdan; MyungSoo Bae


Book ID
104006335
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
625 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0010-4485

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✦ Synopsis


When dealing with triangle meshes, it is often important to compute curvature information for the purposes of feature recognition, segmentation, or shape analysis. Since a triangle mesh is a piecewise linear surface, curvature has to be estimated. Several different schemes have been proposed, both discrete and continuous, i.e. based on fitting surfaces locally. This paper compares commonly used discrete and continuous curvature estimation schemes. We also present a novel method which uses biquadratic Be ´zier patches as a local surface fitting technique.