Abstract
In previous mesh morphing techniques,
the vertex set and connectivity of an in-between mesh are fixed
and only the vertex positions are interpolated between input meshes.
With this restriction,
to accurately represent both source and target shapes,
an in-between mesh should contain a much larger number of vertices
than input meshes.
This paper proposes a novel approach for mesh morphing,
which includes connectivity changes in a metamorphosis.
With the approach, an in-between mesh contains only the vertices
from the input meshes
and so the in-between vertex count does not exceed the sum of source and target vertex counts.
The connectivity changes are realized by a sequence of edge swap operations,
determined by considering the geometric errors from the input meshes.
Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach
generates almost same in-between shapes
as the metamesh-based approach with a much smaller number of vertices.
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Related Papers
- M. Ahn, S. Lee, and H. Seidel,
"Connectivity Transformation for Mesh Metamorphosis",
In Eurographics / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing 2004, pp 77-84,
Nice, France,
July 2004.
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- M. Ahn and S. Lee,
"Mesh Metamorphosis with Topological Transformations",
In Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2002, pp. 481-482, Beijing, China,
IEEE Computer Society, October 2002.
- M. Ahn and S. Lee,
"Mesh Metamorphosis using Topological Transformations",
In Proc. of Korea-Japan Graphics 2001, pp. 11-25, Busan, Korea,
August 2001.
- M. Ahn and S. Lee,
"Feature-based Topological Mesh Metamorphosis",
SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications 2001