Shadows are of great importance to computer graphics, especially for interactive animation due to the visual cues which they provide. Most research in the field of dynamic shadowing has focussed on shadows from point light sources, since they are much easier to compute than those from area light sources. This means that such shadows have sharp boundaries, and so often appear to be unrealistic. ...

Pseudo Voronoi Tessellation via Anisotropic Meshing Our tessellation technique to represent organic texture consists of three steps: (1) elliptic or rectangular particle packing; (2) anisotropic meshing by connecting the centers of the particles; and (3) Voronoi tessellation as a dual of the anisotropic mesh. Given preferred cell sizes and directionality within a geometric domain, the technique...

Tooth surface wear causes variation in meshing stiffness and transmission error of the gear system further fluctuation dynamic characteristics. In this study, a behavior prediction model was established, which considered machined tooth based on mixed lubrication sliding tribology-dynamic model. The pair characteristics along line were analyzed through simulations, impacts conditions, operating ...

Dense depth maps can be estimated in a Bayesian sense from multiple calibrated still images of a rigid scene relative to a reference view [1]. This well-established probabilistic framework is extended by adaptively refining a triangular meshing procedure and by automatic cross-validation of model parameters. The adaptive refinement strategy locally adjusts the triangular meshing according to th...

This paper introduces Lp-Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (LpCVT), a generalization of CVT that minimizes a higher-order moment of the coordinates on the Voronoi cells. This generalization allows for aligning the axes of the Voronoi cells with a predefined background tensor field (anisotropy). Lp-CVT is computed by a quasi-Newton optimization framework, based on closed-form derivations of the ob...

This paper proposes a practical, topologically robust and ranging error resistive shape modelling procedure that approximates a real object, with the matrix-format data structure, for 3D shape processing. Virtual manipulations, such as local shape modification and transcription are demonstrated. A geometric model with the desired meshing is directly reconstructed based on a solid modelling appr...