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The medial axis in 3D consists of 2D sheets, meeting in 1D curves and special points. In this paper we investigate the consistency conditions which must hold on a collection of sheets meeting in curves and points in order that they could be the medial axis of a smooth surface.
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Pollitt, A., Giblin, P., Kimia, B. (2004). Consistency Conditions on the Medial Axis. In: Pajdla, T., Matas, J. (eds) Computer Vision - ECCV 2004. ECCV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24671-8_42
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