We exploit the Laplace-Beltrami operator to represent shapes which in turn is used for designing a shape based transfer function for volume rendering. Laplace-Beltrami spectral measures are isometry invariant and are one of the most powerful ways to represent shape, also called “Shape-DNA”. Isosurfaces are extracted from the volume data and the Laplace-Beltrami operator is applied on these extr...

This report mainly illustrates a way to compute the Laplace-Beltrami-Operator on a Riemannian Manifold and gives information to why and where it is used in the Analysis of 3D Shapes. After a brief introduction, an overview over the necessary properties of manifolds for calculating the Laplacian is given. Furthermore the two operators needed for defining the Laplace-Beltrami-Operator the gradien...

This paper presents a method to compute the quasi-conformal parameterization (QCMC) for a multiply-connected 2D domain or surface. QCMC computes a quasi-conformal map from a multiply-connected domain S onto a punctured disk DS associated with a given Beltrami differential. The Beltrami differential, which measures the conformality distortion, is a complexvalued function μ : S → C with supremum ...