A general framework for surface modeling using geometric partial differential equations

Computer Aided Geometric Design

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 181-202

  Xu, Guoliang ^a,b   Zhang, Qin ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIJING INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric PDEs; Surface modeling; Triangular surface mesh

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

GEOMETRIC EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; GEOMETRIC PDES; SURFACE MODELING; TRIANGULAR SURFACE MESH;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 38649102461     PISSN: 01678396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cagd.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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