Pressing: Smooth Isosurfaces with Flats from Binary Grids

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Title: Pressing: Smooth Isosurfaces with Flats from Binary Grids
Author: Chica, Antonio ; Williams, Jason ; Andujar, Carlos ; Brunet, Pere ; Navazo, Isabel ; Rossignac, Jaroslaw R. ; Vinacua, Alvar
Abstract: We explore the automatic recovery of solids from their binary volumetric discretizations. In particular, we propose an approach, called Pressing, for smoothing isosurfaces extracted from binary volumes while recovering their large planar regions (flats). Pressing yields a surface that is guaranteed to contain the samples of the volume classified as interior and exclude those classified as exterior. It uses global optimization to identify flats and constrained bilaplacian smoothing to eliminate sharp features and high-frequencies from the rest of the isosurface. It recovers sharp edges between flat regions and between flat and smooth regions. Hence, the resulting isosurface is usually a very accurate approximation of the original solid. Furthermore, the segmentation of the isosurface into flat and curved faces and the sharp/smooth labelling of their edges may be valuable for shape recognition, simplification, compression, and various reverse engineering and manufacturing applications.
Type: Technical Report
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26275
Date: 2007
Contributor: Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology. Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center
Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Dept. of Software
Relation: GVU Technical Report ; GIT-GVU-07-09
Publisher: Georgia Institute of Technology
Subject: CAD/COM
Fitting
ISO
Reconstruction
Smoothing
Surfaces
Voxels

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