Low degree splines for locally quad-dominant meshes

Comput Aided Geom Des. 2020 Nov:83:101934. doi: 10.1016/j.cagd.2020.101934. Epub 2020 Sep 25.

Abstract

A mesh is locally quad-dominant (lqd) if all non-4-sided facets are surrounded by quadrilaterals. Lqd meshes allow for irregular nodes where n ≠ 4 quads meet and for multi-sided facets, called T-gons, that end quad-strips and so adjust mesh density. This paper introduces a new class of bi-cubic (bi-3) Geometric T-joint (GT) splines whose control nets are τ-nets, i.e. T-gons surrounded by quads. These GT-splines join smoothly with each other, bi-3 G-splines and regular C 1 bi-quadratic splines to form smooth surfaces of degree at most bi-3.