Title
Parametric surface interpolation
Abstract
A survey comparing methods for constructing smooth parametric surfaces to interpolate vertices and normal vectors of a triangulated polyhedron is presented. Particular attention is paid to the quality or fairness of the fit, measured by examining how curvature is distributed over the surface. The methods surveyed all generate surfaces composed of one or more surface patches per triangular facet of the input polyhedron. The approaches require an analysis of the number of constraints versus the number of degrees of freedom. Constraints include not only the interpolation conditions, but also continuity conditions imposed where adjacent surface patches abutt. Once the constraints are satisfied, there are generally surplus degrees of freedom. It is shown that the setting of these remaining free parameters can dramatically affect the shape of the surface, so the various methods are classified according to how they assign values to the free parameters.<>
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1109/38.156012
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational geometry,interpolation,solid modelling,continuity conditions,fairness,normal vectors,smooth parametric surfaces,triangulated polyhedron,vertices interpolation
Parametric surface,Parametrization,Mathematical analysis,Interpolation,Polyhedron,Computational geometry,Facet (geometry),Artificial intelligence,Geometry,Computer vision,Curvature,Vertex (geometry),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
5
0272-1716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
24.80
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Lounsbery1715137.20
Stephen Mann24326.77
Tony DeRose31152136.22