TY - JOUR
T1 - Piecewise optimal triangulation for the approximation of scattered data in the plane
AU - Bertram, Martin
AU - Barnes, James C.
AU - Hamann, Bernd
AU - Joy, Kenneth I.
AU - Pottmann, Helmut
AU - Wushour, Dilinur
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under contracts ACI 9624034 and ACI 9983641 (CAREER Awards), through the Large Scientific and Software Data Set Visualization (LSSDSV) program under contract ACI 9982251, and through the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI); the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-97-1-0222; the Army Research Office under contract ARO 36598-MA-RIP; the NASA Ames Research Center through an NRA award under contract NAG2-1216; the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under ASCI ASAP Level-2 Memorandum Agreement B347878 and under Memorandum Agreement B503159; and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) under contract CRG.971628 awarded to the University of California, Davis. We also acknowledge the support of ALSTOM Schilling Robotics, Chevron, General Atomics, Silicon Graphics, Inc. and ST Microelectronics, Inc. We thank the members of the Visualization Thrust at the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC) at the University of California, Davis, and the members of the Data Exploration Group at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
PY - 2000/9
Y1 - 2000/9
N2 - We present an efficient algorithm to obtain a triangulated graph surface for scattered points (xi yi)T, i = 1, ..., n, with associated function values fi. The maximal distance between the triangulated graph surface and the function values is measured in z-direction (z = f(x, y)) and lies within a user-defined tolerance. The number of triangles is minimized locally by adapting their shapes to different second-degree least squares approximations of the underlying data. The method consists of three major steps: (i) subdividing the given discrete data set into clusters such that each cluster can be approximated by a quadratic polynomial within a prescribed tolerance; (ii) optimally triangulating the graph surface of each quadratic polynomial; and (iii) `stitching' the triangulations of all graph surfaces together. We also discuss modifications of the algorithm that are necessary to deal with discrete data points, without connectivity information, originating from a general two-manifold surface, i.e., a surface in three-dimensional space that is not necessarily a graph surface.
AB - We present an efficient algorithm to obtain a triangulated graph surface for scattered points (xi yi)T, i = 1, ..., n, with associated function values fi. The maximal distance between the triangulated graph surface and the function values is measured in z-direction (z = f(x, y)) and lies within a user-defined tolerance. The number of triangles is minimized locally by adapting their shapes to different second-degree least squares approximations of the underlying data. The method consists of three major steps: (i) subdividing the given discrete data set into clusters such that each cluster can be approximated by a quadratic polynomial within a prescribed tolerance; (ii) optimally triangulating the graph surface of each quadratic polynomial; and (iii) `stitching' the triangulations of all graph surfaces together. We also discuss modifications of the algorithm that are necessary to deal with discrete data points, without connectivity information, originating from a general two-manifold surface, i.e., a surface in three-dimensional space that is not necessarily a graph surface.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0167-8396(00)00026-1
DO - 10.1016/S0167-8396(00)00026-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034276341
SN - 0167-8396
VL - 17
SP - 767
EP - 787
JO - Computer Aided Geometric Design
JF - Computer Aided Geometric Design
IS - 8
ER -