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On Smooth Bicubic Surfaces from Quad Meshes

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Determining the least m such that one m×m bi-cubic macro-patch per quadrilateral offers enough degrees of freedom to construct a smooth surface by local operations regardless of the vertex valences is of fundamental interest; and it is of interest for computer graphics due to the impending ability of GPUs to adaptively evaluate polynomial patches at animation speeds.

We constructively show that m = 3 suffices, show that m = 2 is unlikely to always allow for a localized construction if each macro-patch is internally parametrically C 1 and that a single patch per quad is incompatible with a localized construction. We do not specify the GPU implementation.

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  1. Dept CISE, University of Florida, USA

    Jianhua Fan & Jörg Peters

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box, FL 32611-6120, Gainsville, USA

    Jörg Peters

  8. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, NY 10532, Hawthorne, USA

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    Laura Monroe

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Fan, J., Peters, J. (2008). On Smooth Bicubic Surfaces from Quad Meshes. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89639-5_9

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