Constructing triangular meshes of minimal area

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 508-518

  Chen, Wenyu ^a   Cai, Yiyu ^a   Zheng, Jianmin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dirichlet approach; Geometric modeling; Minimal surfaces; Plateau problem

Indexed keywords

DIRICHLET; GEOMETRIC MODELING; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MINIMAL AREA; MINIMAL SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; TRIANGULAR MESHES;

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 73649109200     PISSN: 16864360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3722/cadaps.2008.508-518     Document Type: Article

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