Isotropic Remeshing with Fast and Exact Computation of Restricted Voronoi Diagram

Dong-Ming Yan (1, 2) , Bruno Lévy (1) , Yang Liu (1) , Feng Sun (2) , Wenping Wang (2)

1 ALICE - Geometry and Lighting
2 Department of Computer Science [Hong Kong]

We propose a new isotropic remeshing method, based on Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT). Constructing CVT requires to repeatedly compute Restricted Voronoi Diagram (RVD), defined as the intersection between a 3D Voronoi diagram and an input mesh surface. Existing methods use some approximations of RVD. In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm that computes RVD exactly and robustly. As a consequence, we achieve better remeshing quality than approximation-based approaches, without sacrificing efficiency. Our method for RVD computation uses a simple procedure and a kd-tree to quickly identify and compute the intersection of each triangle face with its incident Voronoi cells. Its time complexity is O(mlogn), where n is the number of seed points and m is the number of triangles of the input mesh. Fast convergence of CVT is achieved using a quasi-Newton method, which proved much faster than Lloyd's iteration. Examples are presented to demonstrate the better quality of remeshing results with our method than with the state-of-art approaches.

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

Dong-Ming Yan, Bruno Lévy, Yang Liu, Feng Sun, Wenping Wang. Isotropic Remeshing with Fast and Exact Computation of Restricted Voronoi Diagram. Computer Graphics Forum, 2009, 28 (5), pp.1445-1454. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01521.x⟩. ⟨inria-00547790⟩