Adaptive patch-based mesh fitting for reverse engineering

Hongwei Lin, Wei Chen, Hujun Bao
2007 Computer-Aided Design  
In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive mesh fitting algorithm that fits a triangular model with G 1 smoothly stitching bi-quintic Bézier patches. Our algorithm first segments the input mesh into a set of quadrilateral patches, whose boundaries form a quadrangle mesh. For each boundary of each quadrilateral patch, we construct a normal curve and a boundary-fitting curve, which fit the normal and position of its boundary vertices respectively. By interpolating the normal and boundary-fitting
more » ... urves of each quadrilateral patch with a Bézier patch, an initial G 1 smoothly stitching Bézier patches is generated. We perform this patch-based fitting scheme in an adaptive fashion by recursively subdividing the underlying quadrilateral into four sub-patches. The experimental results show that our algorithm achieves precision-ensured Bézier patches with G 1 continuity and meets the requirements of reverse engineering.
doi:10.1016/j.cad.2007.10.002 fatcat:yrewn275j5dkpizd7orntfgfxa