Component-aware tensor-product trivariate splines of arbitrary topology
Bo Li, Hong Qin
In Computers & Graphics, 36(5), 2012.
Abstract: The fundamental goal of this paper aims to bridge the large gap between the shape versatility of arbitrary topology and the geometric modeling limitation of conventional tensor-product splines for solid representations. Its contribution lies at a novel shape modeling methodology based on tensor-product trivariate splines for solids with arbitrary topology. Our framework advocates a divide-and-conquer strategy. The model is first decomposed into a set of components as basic building blocks. Each component is naturally modeled as tensor-product trivariate splines with cubic basis functions while supporting local refinement. The key novelty is our powerful merging strategy that can glue tensor-product spline solids together subject to $C^2$ continuity. As a result, this new spline representation has many attractive advantages. At the theoretical level, the integration of the top-down topological decomposition and the bottom-up spline construction enables an elegant modeling approach for arbitrary high-genus solids. Each building block is a regular tensor-product spline, which is CAD-ready and facilitates GPU computing. In addition, our new spline merging method enforces the features of semi-standardness (i.e., $Sigma _iw_iB_i(u,v,w)equiv 1$ everywhere) and boundary restriction (i.e., all blending functions are confined exactly within parametric domains) in favor of downstream CAE applications. At the computational level, our component-aware spline scheme supports meshless fitting which completely avoids tedious volumetric mapping and remeshing. This divide-and-conquer strategy reduces the time and space complexity drastically. We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate its shape flexibility and versatility towards solid modeling with complicated geometries and non-trivial genus.
Keyword(s): Tensor-product splines, Trivariate splines, Solid models of arbitrary topology, Semi-standardness, Boundary restriction
@article{Li:2012:CTT,
author = {Bo Li and Hong Qin},
title = {Component-aware tensor-product trivariate splines of arbitrary topology},
journal = {Computers & Graphics},
volume = {36},
number = {5},
pages = {329--340},
year = {2012},
}
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