Corner-Based Implicit Patches

  • Ágoston Sipos Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5562-2849
Keywords: implicit surfaces, multi-sided patches, volumetric data

Abstract

Free-form multi-sided surfaces are often defined by side interpolants (also called ribbons), requiring that the surface has to connect to them with a prescribed degree of smoothness. I-patches represent a family of implicit surfaces defined by an arbitrary number of ribbons. While in the case of parametric surfaces describing ribbons is a well-discussed problem, defining implicit ribbons is a different task.

In this paper, we introduce a new representation, corner I-patches, where implicit corner interpolants are blended together. Corner interpolants are usually simpler, lower-degree surfaces than ribbons. The shape of the patch depends on a handful of scalar parameters; constraining them ensures continuity between adjacent patches. Corner I-patches have several favorable properties that can be exploited for design, volume rendering, or cell-based approximation of complex shapes.

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Published
2023-06-26
How to Cite
Sipos, Ágoston. (2023). Corner-Based Implicit Patches. Acta Cybernetica, 26(3), 621-636. https://doi.org/10.14232/actacyb.299598
Section
Special Issue of the 13th Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science