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Exact and Efficient Mesh-Kernel Generation

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Julius Nehring-Wirxel
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P. Kern
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Philip Trettner
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Leif Kobbelt
DOI:10.1111/cgf.70187delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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The mesh kernel for a star-shaped mesh is a convex polyhedron given by the intersection of all half-spaces defined by the faces of the input mesh. For all non-star-shaped meshes, the kernel is empty. We present a method to robustly and efficiently compute the kernel of an input triangle mesh by using exact plane-based integer arithmetic to compute the mesh kernel. We make use of several ways to accelerate the computation time. Since many applications just require information if a non-empty mesh kernel exists, we also propose a method to efficiently determine whether a kernel exists by developing an exact plane-based linear program solver. We evaluate our method on a large dataset of triangle meshes and show that in contrast to previous methods, our approach is exact and robust while maintaining a high performance. It is on average two orders of magnitude faster than other exact state-of-the-art methods and often about one order of magnitude faster than non-exact methods.
Keywords:
CCS Concepts
• Computing methodologies → Mesh geometry models
• Theory of computation → Linear programming
• Applied computing → Computer-aided design

Journal

Computer Graphics Forum cover
Computer Graphics Forum
IF:
2.9
Papers:
496
Citations:
1.1W

Organization

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shaped code gmbh, germany
Scholars:
1
Papers: 1
Citations: 0
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RWTH Aachen University
Scholars:
3.5W
Papers: 2.6W
Citations: 3.6W