Automatic construction of quad-based subdivision surfaces using Fitmaps

Daniele Panozzo; Enrico Puppo; Marco Tarini; Nico Pietroni; Paolo Cignoni

doi:10.1109/TVCG.2011.28

Automatic construction of quad-based subdivision surfaces using Fitmaps

IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2011 Oct;17(10):1510-20. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.28.

Authors

Daniele Panozzo¹, Enrico Puppo, Marco Tarini, Nico Pietroni, Paolo Cignoni

Affiliation

¹ Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 35, Genoa 16146, Italy. panozzo@disi.unige.it

PMID: 21282861
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.28

Abstract

We present an automatic method to produce a Catmull-Clark subdivision surface that fits a given input mesh. Its control mesh is coarse and adaptive, and it is obtained by simplifying an initial mesh at high resolution. Simplification occurs progressively via local operators and addresses both quality of surface and faithfulness to the input shape throughout the whole process. The method is robust and performs well on rather complex shapes. Displacement mapping or normal mapping can be applied to approximate the input shape arbitrarily well.