Title
A tangent subdivision scheme
Abstract
In this article, we propose a new subdivision scheme based on uniform Powell-Sabin spline subdivision. It belongs to the class of vector subdivision schemes; for each vertex, we have three control points that form a control triangle tangent to the surface instead of one control point. The main advantage of this scheme is that we can choose the values of the normals in the initial vertices which results in more design possibilities. At first sight, it is an approximating scheme because the control points change each iteration. However, the point where the control triangle is tangent to the surface remains the same. Therefore, it is an interpolating scheme. In the regular regions, we use the uniform Powell-Sabin rules, and we develop additional subdivision rules for the new vertices in the neighborhood of extraordinary vertices. The scheme yields C1 continuous surfaces. We also do the convergence analysis based on the eigenproperties of the subdivision matrix and the properties of the characteristic map.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1138450.1138458
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
subdivision matrix,additional subdivision rule,: powell-sabin splines,68u07.,control triangle tangent,tangent subdivision scheme,control triangle,approximating scheme,scheme yield,65d17,interpolating scheme,generalized subdivision,control point,new subdivision scheme,characteristic map. amsmos classication : 65d07,arbitrary topology,uniform Powell-Sabin spline subdivision
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0730-0301
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Evelyne Vanraes1333.88
Adhemar Bultheel221734.80