Data Dependent Thin Plate Energy and its use in Interactive Surface Modeling

dc.contributor.authorGreiner, Guntheren_US
dc.contributor.authorLoos, Joachimen_US
dc.contributor.authorWesselink, Wiegeren_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-21T07:43:34Z
dc.date.available2014-10-21T07:43:34Z
dc.date.issued1996en_US
dc.description.abstractWhen modeling spline surfaces of complex shape, one has to deal with an overwhelming number of control points. Modeling by direct manipulation of the control points is a tedious task. In particular, it is very difficult to maintain a generally pleasant looking surface shape. It becomes therefore increasingly important to build tools that allow the designer to specify only a few geometric constraints while automatically determining the explicit representation of the surface. The basic concept of such a tool is simple. In a first step one has to somehow measure the"fairness" (=quality) of a surface. Once this is achieved, an optimization process selects the one surface with optimal fairness from all surfaces satisfying the user specified geometric constraints.To measure the fairness, thin plate energy functionals are a good choice. However, for interactive use these functionals are far too complex. W e will present appropriate approximations to these functionals that allow an optimization nearly in real time. Thefunctionals are obtained by introducing reference surfaces thus leading to data dependent, quadratic approximations to the exact thin plate energy functionals. We apply the method to interactive surface manipulations based on energy constraints.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume15en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8659.1530175en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages175-185en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8659.1530175en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.titleData Dependent Thin Plate Energy and its use in Interactive Surface Modelingen_US
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