OffsetCrust: Variable-Radius Offset Approximation With Power Diagrams

Zi-Han Zhao

doi:10.1109/tvcg.2026.3701358

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OffsetCrust: Variable-Radius Offset Approximation With Power Diagrams

2026-06-09

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Wang, Wenping (Wenping Wang)

DOI：10.1109/tvcg.2026.3701358

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Offset surfaces, defined as the Minkowski sum of a base surface and a rolling ball, play a crucial role in geometry processing, with applications ranging from coverage motion planning to brush modeling. While considerable progress has been made in computing constant-radius offset surfaces, computing variable-radius offset surfaces remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we present OffsetCrust, a novel framework that efficiently addresses the variable-radius offsetting problem by computing a power diagram. Let ${\mathcal {R}}$ denote the radius function defined on the base surface $\mathcal {S}$. The power diagram is constructed from contributing sites, consisting of carefully sampled base points on $\mathcal {S}$ and their corresponding off-surface points, displaced along ${\mathcal {R}}$-dependent directions. In the constant-radius case only, these displacement directions align exactly with the surface normals of $\mathcal {S}$. Moreover, our method mitigates the misalignment issues commonly seen in crust-based approaches through a lightweight fine-tuning procedure. We validate the accuracy and efficiency of OffsetCrust through extensive experiments, and demonstrate its practical utility in applications such as reconstructing original boundary surfaces from medial axis transform (MAT) representations.

Keywords:

Digital geometry processing

variable-radius offset

power diagram

medial axis transform