QuadCover - Surface Parameterization using Branched Coverings
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2007
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
We introduce an algorithm for the automatic computation of global parameterizations on arbitrary simplicial 2-manifolds, whose parameter lines are guided by a given frame field, for example, by principal curvature frames. The parameter lines are globally continuous and allow a remeshing of the surface into quadrilaterals. The algorithm converts a given frame field into a single vector field on a branched covering of the 2-manifold and generates an integrable vector field by a Hodge decomposition on the covering space. Except for an optional smoothing and alignment of the initial frame field, the algorithm is fully automatic and generates high quality quadrilateral meshes.
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@article{10.1111:j.1467-8659.2007.01060.x,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{QuadCover - Surface Parameterization using Branched Coverings}},
author = {Kaelberer, Felix and Nieser, Matthias and Polthier, Konrad},
year = {2007},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01060.x}
}