Swirling-Swepers: Constant Volume Modelling

Alexis Angelidis (1) , Marie-Paule Cani (2) , Geoff Wyvill (1) , Scott King (1)

1 Graphics Lab - Graphics and Vision Research Laboratory
2 EVASION - Virtual environments for animation and image synthesis of natural objects

Swirling sweepers is a method for modeling shapes while preserving volume. The artist describes a deformation by dragging a point along a path. The method is independant of the geometric representation of the shape. It preserves volume and avoids self-intersections, both local and global. It is capable of unlimited stretching and the deformation can be controlled to affect only a part of the model.

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Alexis Angelidis, Marie-Paule Cani, Geoff Wyvill, Scott King. Swirling-Swepers: Constant Volume Modelling. Siggraph Technical Sketches and Applications, 2004, Los Angeles, United States. ⟨10.1145/1186223.1186273⟩. ⟨inria-00537465⟩