Discrete geodesic nets for modeling developable surfaces

M Rabinovich, T Hoffmann… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present a discrete theory for modeling developable surfaces as quadrilateral meshes
satisfying simple angle constraints. The basis of our model is a lesser-known …

Quad-mesh based isometric mappings and developable surfaces

C Jiang, C Wang, F Rist, J Wallner… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We discretize isometric mappings between surfaces as correspondences between
checkerboard patterns derived from quad meshes. This method captures the degrees of …

Functional characterization of intrinsic and extrinsic geometry

E Corman, J Solomon, M Ben-Chen, L Guibas… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We propose a novel way to capture and characterize distortion between pairs of shapes by
extending the recently proposed framework of shape differences built on functional maps …

Principal symmetric meshes

D Pellis, H Wang, M Kilian, F Rist, H Pottmann… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The isolines of principal symmetric surface parametrizations run symmetrically to the
principal directions. We describe two discrete versions of these special nets/quad meshes …

Discrete minimal surfaces: critical points of the area functional from integrable systems

WY Lam - International Mathematics Research Notices, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We obtain a unified theory of discrete minimal surfaces based on discrete holomorphic
quadratic differentials via a Weierstrass representation. Our discrete holomorphic quadratic …

A unified discrete framework for intrinsic and extrinsic Dirac operators for geometry processing

Z Ye, O Diamanti, C Tang, L Guibas… - Computer Graphics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Spectral mesh analysis and processing methods, namely ones that utilize eigenvalues and
eigenfunctions of linear operators on meshes, have been applied to numerous geometric …

Isothermic tori with one family of planar curvature lines and area constrained hyperbolic elastica

AI Bobenko, T Hoffmann… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In 1883, Darboux gave a local classification of isothermic surfaces with one family of planar
curvature lines using complex analytic methods. His choice of real reduction cannot contain …

[HTML][HTML] Minimal surfaces from infinitesimal deformations of circle packings

WY Lam - Advances in Mathematics, 2020 - Elsevier
We study circle packings with the combinatorics of a triangulated disk in the plane and
parametrize deformations of circle packings in terms of vertex rotation and cross ratios. We …

Skew parallelogram nets and universal factorization

T Hoffmann, AO Sageman-Furnas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We obtain many objects of discrete differential geometry as reductions of skew
parallelogram nets, a system of lattice equations that may be formulated for any unit …

Discrete isothermic nets based on checkerboard patterns

F Dellinger - Discrete & Computational Geometry, 2024 - Springer
This paper studies the discrete differential geometry of the checkerboard pattern inscribed in
a quadrilateral net by connecting edge midpoints. It turns out to be a versatile tool which …