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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Simplification of Topologically Complex Assemblies
Authors : Carlos Andújar, Marta Fairén, Pere Brunet, Víctor Cebollada
Published in: Advances in Multiresolution for Geometric Modelling
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this paper we present a new simplification approach intended for scenes containing a huge number of simple objects forming a topologically complex assembly. Our method combines appearance preservation and topology reduction by converting a 3D model to and from an intermediate octree representation. During the conversion of the input mesh into an octree, appearance attributes such as colour are stored in the octree nodes. Unlike related approaches, the inside/outside values at octree vertices are computed according to neighbourhood configuration rather than by direct sampling. This allows the reconstructed surface to span only a reduced subset of the terminal nodes of the octree (those which are classified as border nodes), thus avoiding small cracks and removing internal structures not visible from the outside. The reconstruction step of our method succeeds in preserving the appearance of most of the scene objects while drastically simplifying the geometry and topology.