On Discrete Killing Vector Fields and Patterns on Surfaces

Symmetry is one of the most important properties of a shape, unifying form and function. It encodes semantic information on one hand, and affects the shape's aesthetic value on the other. Symmetry comes in many flavors, amongst the most interesting being intrinsic symmetry, which is defined only in terms of the intrinsic geometry of the shape. Continuous intrinsic symmetries can be represented using infinitesimal rigid transformations, which are given as tangent vector fields on the surface

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CGF
• Authors: Mirela Ben-Chen, Adrian Butscher, Justin Solomon, Leonidas J. Guibas
• Keywords: CGF 2010, Continuous Intrinsic Symmetries, Symmetry, Vector Fields