Selective Padding for Polycube‐Based Hexahedral Meshing

dc.contributor.authorCherchi, G.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAlliez, P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorScateni, R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLyon, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBommes, D.en_US
dc.contributor.editorChen, Min and Benes, Bedrichen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-17T09:57:04Z
dc.date.available2019-03-17T09:57:04Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractHexahedral meshes generated from polycube mapping often exhibit a low number of singularities but also poor‐quality elements located near the surface. It is thus necessary to improve the overall mesh quality, in terms of the minimum scaled Jacobian (MSJ) or average SJ (ASJ). Improving the quality may be obtained via global padding (or pillowing), which pushes the singularities inside by adding an extra layer of hexahedra on the entire domain boundary. Such a global padding operation suffers from a large increase of complexity, with unnecessary hexahedra added. In addition, the quality of elements near the boundary may decrease. We propose a novel optimization method which inserts sheets of hexahedra so as to perform selective padding, where it is most needed for improving the mesh quality. A sheet can pad part of the domain boundary, traverse the domain and form singularities. Our global formulation, based on solving a binary problem, enables us to control the balance between quality improvement, increase of complexity and number of singularities. We show in a series of experiments that our approach increases the MSJ value and preserves (or even improves) the ASJ, while adding fewer hexahedra than global padding.en_US
dc.description.number1
dc.description.sectionheadersArticles
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13593
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages580-591
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13593
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13593
dc.publisher© 2019 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectcomputational geometry
dc.subjectmodelling
dc.subjectphysically based modelling
dc.subjectmesh generation
dc.subjectI.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling—Curve
dc.subjectsurface
dc.subjectsolid
dc.subjectand object representations
dc.titleSelective Padding for Polycube‐Based Hexahedral Meshingen_US
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