Normal meshes

Normal meshes are new fundamental surface descriptions inspired by differential geometry. A normal mesh is a multiresolution mesh where each level can be written as a normal offset from a coarser version. Hence the mesh can be stored with a single float per vertex. We present an algorithm to approximate any surface arbitrarily closely with a normal semi-regular mesh. Normal meshes can be useful in numerous applications such as compression, filtering, rendering, texturing, and modeling. CR Categories and Subject Descriptors: I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling - curve, surface, solid, and object representa

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: SIGGRAPH
• Authors: Igor Guskov, Kiril Vidimce, Wim Sweldens, Peter Schröder
• Keywords: Computer Graphics, Normal Meshes, Normal Offset, Normal Semi-regular Mesh, SIGGRAPH 2000