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CAD
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
The spherical visibility map
We introduce a novel representation for visibility in three dimensions and describe an efficient algorithm to construct it. The data structure is a spherical map that consists of...
Todd Keeler, John Fedorkiw, Sherif Ghali
CAD
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
Error analysis of reparametrization based approaches for curve offsetting
This paper proposes an error analysis of reparametrization based approaches for planar curve offsetting. The approximation error in Hausdorff distance is computed. The error is bo...
Hong-Yan Zhao, Guo-Jin Wang
CAD
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
Detection of closed sharp edges in point clouds using normal estimation and graph theory
The reconstruction of a surface model from a point cloud is an important task in the reverse engineering of industrial parts. We aim at constructing a curve network on the point c...
Kris Demarsin, Denis Vanderstraeten, Tim Volodine,...
CAD
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
A formal theory for estimating defeaturing-induced engineering analysis errors
Defeaturing is a popular CAD/ CAE simplification technique where ‘small or irrelevant features’ are suppressed within a CAD model for speeding-up downstream processes, especia...
Sankara Hari Gopalakrishnan, Krishnan Suresh
CAD
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
A B-spline-based approach to heterogeneous objects design and analysis
The recent advancement of solid freeform fabrication, design techniques and fundamental understanding of material properties in functionally graded materials has made it possible ...
Pinghai Yang, Xiaoping Qian
CAD
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
A spectral approach to shape-based retrieval of articulated 3D models
We present an approach for robust shape retrieval from databases containing articulated 3D models. Each shape is represented by the eigenvectors of an appropriately defined affin...
Varun Jain, Hao Zhang 0002
CAD
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
Computing general geometric structures on surfaces using Ricci flow
Systematically generalizing planar geometric algorithms to manifold domains is of fundamental importance in computer aided design field. This paper proposes a novel theoretic fra...
Miao Jin, Feng Luo 0002, Xianfeng David Gu