GPU smoothing of quad meshes
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, 2008. SMI 2008
@article{ni2008gpu,
title={GPU smoothing of quad meshes},
author={Ni, T. and Yeo, Y. and Myles, A. and Goel, V. and Peters, J.},
year={2008},
publisher={IEEE}
}
We present a fast algorithm for converting quad meshes on the GPU to smooth surfaces. Meshes with 12,000 input quads, of which 60% have one or more non-4-valent vertices, are converted, evaluated and rendered with 9times9 resolution per quad at 50 frames per second. The conversion reproduces bi-cubic splines wherever possible and closely mimics the shape of the Catmull-Clark subdivision surface by c-patches where a vertex has a valence different from 4. The smooth surface is piecewise polynomial and has well-defined normals everywhere. The evaluation avoids pixel dropout.
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