Title
Selective Padding for Polycube-Based Hexahedral Meshing.
Abstract
Hexahedral meshes generated from polycube mapping often exhibit a low number of singularities but also poor-quality elements located near the surface. It is thus necessary to improve the overall mesh quality, in terms of the minimum scaled Jacobian (MSJ) or average SJ (ASJ). Improving the quality may be obtained via global padding (or pillowing), which pushes the singularities inside by adding an extra layer of hexahedra on the entire domain boundary. Such a global padding operation suffers from a large increase of complexity, with unnecessary hexahedra added. In addition, the quality of elements near the boundary may decrease. We propose a novel optimization method which inserts sheets of hexahedra so as to perform selective padding, where it is most needed for improving the mesh quality. A sheet can pad part of the domain boundary, traverse the domain and form singularities. Our global formulation, based on solving a binary problem, enables us to control the balance between quality improvement, increase of complexity and number of singularities. We show in a series of experiments that our approach increases the MSJ value and preserves (or even improves) the ASJ, while adding fewer hexahedra than global padding.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1111/cgf.13593
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational geometry,modelling,physically based modelling,mesh generation
Hexahedron,Computer vision,Polygon mesh,Jacobian matrix and determinant,Polycube,Computer science,Computational geometry,Computational science,Artificial intelligence,Padding,Mesh generation,Traverse
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38.0
1.0
0167-7055
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gianmarco Cherchi1175.35
Pierre Alliez22749135.44
Scateni, R.333944.03
Max Lyon4112.59
David Bommes558727.75