12.07.2015 Views

To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation ...

To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation ...

To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Voronoi diagr<strong>am</strong> and Delaunay triangulation. It produces a set of triangles, called crustof <strong>the</strong> s<strong>am</strong>ple points. All vertices of crust triangles are s<strong>am</strong>ple points.Amenta et al. introduced <strong>the</strong> power crust in [3]. The power crust is a constructionwhich takes a s<strong>am</strong>ple of points from <strong>the</strong> surface of a three-dimensional object andproduces a surface mesh and an approximate medial axis.The approach is to firstapproximate <strong>the</strong> medial axis transform (MAT) of <strong>the</strong> object, and <strong>the</strong>n use an inversetransform to produce <strong>the</strong> surface representation from <strong>the</strong> MAT.Bernardini et al. [6] developed a system n<strong>am</strong>ed ball-pivoting based on α-shapes whileavoiding <strong>the</strong> computation of <strong>the</strong> Voronoi diagr<strong>am</strong>. The ball-pivoting algorithm computesa triangle mesh interpolating a given point cloud. Three points form a triangle if a ballof a user-specified radius ρ touches <strong>the</strong>m without containing any o<strong>the</strong>r point. Startingwith a seed triangle, <strong>the</strong> ball pivots around an edge until it touches ano<strong>the</strong>r point,forming ano<strong>the</strong>r triangle.The process continues until all reachable edges have beentried, and <strong>the</strong>n starts from ano<strong>the</strong>r seed triangle, until all points have been considered.The process can <strong>the</strong>n be repeated with a ball of larger radius to handle uneven s<strong>am</strong>plingdensities.Zhao et al. [112] introduced a minimal surface like model and its variational andpartial differential equation formulation for surface reconstruction from an unorganizeddata set. The data set can include points, curves, and surface patches. In <strong>the</strong> formulation,only distance to <strong>the</strong> data set is used as <strong>the</strong> input. <strong>To</strong> find <strong>the</strong> final shape, <strong>the</strong>ycontinuously deform an initial surface following <strong>the</strong> gradient flow of an energy func-24

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!