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Parameterization of contractible domains using sequences of harmonic maps. (English) Zbl 1352.65073

Boissonnat, Jean-Daniel (ed.) et al., Curves and surfaces. 7th international conference, Avignon, France, June 24–30, 2010. Revised selected papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-27412-1/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6920, 501-514 (2012).
Summary: In this paper, we propose a new method for parameterizing a contractible domain (called the computational domain) which is defined by its boundary. Using a sequence of harmonic maps, we first build a mapping from the computational domain to the parameter domain, i.e., the unit square or unit cube. Then we parameterize the original domain by spline approximation of the inverse mapping. Numerical simulations of our method were performed with several shapes in 2D and 3D to demonstrate that our method is suitable for various shapes. The method is particular useful for isogeometric analysis because it provides an extension from a boundary representation of a model to a volume representation.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1229.65002].

MSC:

65D18 Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry
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