{"id":343736,"date":"2016-12-29T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T04:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&#038;p=343736"},"modified":"2022-04-28T18:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T01:43:47","slug":"ef%ef%ac%81cient-volumetric-polycube-map-construction","status":"publish","type":"msr-research-item","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/ef%ef%ac%81cient-volumetric-polycube-map-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficient Volumetric PolyCube-Map Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tx\">PolyCubes provide compact representations for closed complex shapes and are essential to many computer graphics applications.<\/span><span class=\"tx\">Existing automatic PolyCube construction methods usually suffer from poor quality or time-consuming computation. In this<\/span><span class=\"tx\">paper, we provide a highly ef\ufb01cient method to compute volumetric PolyCube-maps. Given an input tetrahedral mesh, we utilize<\/span><span class=\"tx\">two novel normal-driven volumetric deformation schemes and a polycube-allowable mesh segmentation to drive the input to a<\/span><span class=\"tx\">volumetric PolyCube structure. Our method can robustly generate foldover-free and low-distortion PolyCube-maps in practice,<\/span><span class=\"tx\">and provide a \ufb02exible control on the number of corners of Polycubes. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, our method is at<\/span><span class=\"tx\">least one order of magnitude faster and has better mapping qualities. We demonstrate the ef\ufb01ciency and ef\ufb01cacy of our method in<\/span><span class=\"tx\">PolyCube construction and all-hexahedral meshing on various complex models<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PolyCubes provide compact representations for closed complex shapes and are essential to many computer graphics applications.Existing automatic PolyCube construction methods usually suffer from poor quality or time-consuming computation. In thispaper, we provide a highly ef\ufb01cient method to compute volumetric PolyCube-maps. Given an input tetrahedral mesh, we utilizetwo novel normal-driven volumetric deformation schemes and a polycube-allowable 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