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Interactive modeling and editing of free-form surfaces from curve networks

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Free-form surface design is one of essential tasks in virtual reality systems. In the past decades, curve network has been widely used as a sparse abstract representation for free-form surfaces. It is intuitive for designers to edit curve networks directly by drag-and-drop operation on an abitrary point, because the designers pay more attention on the lower-dimensional curves rather than the surface itself. In this paper, we present a general framework for editing a free-form surface by manipulating points on its curve network. This approach is very efficient and easy-to-use by working on a network of curves. A wide range of examples are shown which demonstrate the performance and practicability.

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    VRCAI '16: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry - Volume 1
    December 2016
    381 pages
    ISBN:9781450346924
    DOI:10.1145/3013971
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    1. mesh deformation
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