Semi-Regular Mesh Extraction from Volumes

Wood, Zoe Justine (2000) Semi-Regular Mesh Extraction from Volumes. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology. [CaltechCSTR:2000.006]

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Abstract

We present a novel method to extract iso-surfaces from distance volumes. It generates high quality semi-regular multiresolution meshes of arbitrary topology. Our technique proceeds in two stages. First, a very coarse mesh with guaranteed topology is extracted. Subsequently an iterative multi-scale force-based solver refines the initial mesh into a semi-regular mesh with geometrically adaptive sampling rate and good aspect ratio triangles. The coarse mesh extraction is performed using a new approach we call surface wavefront propagation. Given a source voxel of the iso-surface, a set of discrete iso-distance rings are rapidly built and connected while respecting the topology of the iso-surface implied by the data. Subsequent multi-scale refinement is driven by a simple force-based solver designed to combine good iso-surface fit and high quality sampling through reparameterization. In contrast to the Marching Cubes technique our output meshes adapt gracefully to the iso-surface geometry, have a natural multiresolution structure and good aspect ratio triangles, as demonstrated with a number of examples.

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ID Code:	169
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Deposited On:	25 April 2001
Record Number:	CaltechCSTR:2000.006
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