Title
Anisotropic surface meshing
Abstract
We study the problem of triangulating a smooth closed implicit surface Σ endowed with a 2D metric tensor that varies over Σ. This is commonly known as the anisotropic surface meshing problem. We extend the 2D metric tensor naturally to 3D and employ the 3D anisotropic Voronoi diagram of a set P of samples on Σ to triangulate Σ. We prove that a restricted dual, Mesh P, is a valid triangulation homeomorphic to Σ under appropriate conditions. We also develop an algorithm for constructing P and Mesh P. In addition to being homeomorphic to Σ, each triangle in Mesh P is well-shaped when measured using the 3D metric tensors of its vertices. Users can set upper bounds on the anisotropic edge lengths and the angles between the surface normals at vertices and the normals of incident triangles (measured both isotropically and anisotropically).
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1109557.1109581
SODA
Keywords
Field
DocType
nucleolus,np hard,voronoi diagram,upper bound
Combinatorics,Anisotropy,Vertex (geometry),Tensor,Metric tensor,Triangulation,Triangulation (social science),Voronoi diagram,Mathematics,Homeomorphism
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89871-605-5
11
0.85
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Siu-Wing Cheng197394.74
Tamal K. Dey22349169.82
Edgar A. Ramos355139.57
Rephael Wenger444143.54