Title
Angle deficit approximation of Gaussian curvature and its convergence over quadrilateral meshes
Abstract
We propose a discrete approximation of Gaussian curvature over quadrilateral meshes using a linear combination of two angle deficits. Let g"i"j and b"i"j be the coefficients of the first and second fundamental forms of a smooth parametric surface F. Suppose F is sampled so that a surface mesh is obtained. Theoretically we show that for vertices of valence four, the considered two angle deficits are asymptotically equivalent to rational functions in g"i"j and b"i"j under some special conditions called the parallelogram criterion. Specifically, the numerators of the rational functions are homogenous polynomials of degree two in b"i"j with closed form coefficients, and the denominators are g"1"1g"2"2-g"1"2^2. Our discrete approximation of the Gaussian curvature derived from the combination of the angle deficits has quadratic convergence rate under the parallelogram criterion. Numerical results which justify the theoretical analysis are also presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.cad.2007.01.007
Computer-Aided Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
linear combination,angle deficit approximation,quadrilateral mesh,closed form coefficient,parallelogram criterion,angle deficit,gaussian curvature,smooth parametric surface,convergence,asymptotically equivalent,rational function,discrete approximation,surface mesh,parametric surface,quadratic convergence,second fundamental form
Parametric surface,Linear combination,Mathematical optimization,Parallelogram,Vertex (geometry),Polynomial,Rate of convergence,Rational function,Mathematics,Gaussian curvature
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
6
Computer-Aided Design
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dan Liu1258.89
Guoliang Xu222521.21