Skeleton-driven Adaptive Hexahedral Meshing of Tubular Shapes

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 35; no. 7; pp. 237 - 246
• Main Authors: Livesu, Marco, Muntoni, Alessandro, Puppo, Enrico, Scateni, Riccardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Analysis; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Computer animation; Computer graphics; Finite element method; I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling-Physically based modeling; Image processing systems; Mathematical analysis; Mesh generation; Meshing; Studies; Subdivisions; Topological manifolds; Topology; Tubes

We propose a novel method for the automatic generation of structured hexahedral meshes of articulated 3D shapes. We recast the complex problem of generating the connectivity of a hexahedral mesh of a general shape into the simpler problem of generating the connectivity of a tubular structure derived...