Connectivity Transformation for Mesh Metamorphosis

Ahn, Minsu; Lee, Seungyong; Seidel, Hans-Peter

Connectivity Transformation for Mesh Metamorphosis

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Date

2004

Authors

Ahn, Minsu
Lee, Seungyong
Seidel, Hans-Peter

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In previous mesh morphing techniques, the vertex set and connectivity of an in-between mesh are fixed and only the vertex positions are interpolated between input meshes. With this restriction, to accurately represent both source and target shapes, an in-between mesh should contain a much larger number of vertices than input meshes. This paper proposes a novel approach for mesh morphing, which includes connectivity changes in a metamorphosis. With the approach, an in-between mesh contains only the vertices from the input meshes and so the in-between vertex count does not exceed the sum of source and target vertex counts. The connectivity changes are realized by a sequence of edge swap operations, determined by considering the geometric errors from the input meshes. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach generates almost same in-between shapes as the metamesh-based approach with a much smaller number of vertices.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:SGP/SGP04/077-084
,
booktitle = {Symposium on Geometry Processing
},
editor = {Roberto Scopigno and Denis Zorin
},
title = {{Connectivity Transformation for Mesh Metamorphosis
}},
author = {Ahn, Minsu and 
Lee, Seungyong and 
Seidel, Hans-Peter
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-8384
},
ISBN = {3-905673-13-4
},
DOI = {10.2312/SGP/SGP04/077-084
}
}