2006 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Tracking Point-Curve Critical Distances
verfasst von : Xianming Chen, Elaine Cohen, Richard F. Riesenfeld
Erschienen in: Geometric Modeling and Processing - GMP 2006
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper presents a novel approach to continuously and robustly tracking critical (geometrically, perpendicular and/or extremal) distances from a moving plane point
$p \in \mathbb R^2$
to a static parametrized piecewise rational curve
γ
(
s
) (
$s \in \mathbb R$
). The approach is a combination of local marching, and the detection and computation of global topological change, both based on the differential properties of a constructed implicit surface. Unlike many techniques,
it does not use any global search strategy
except at initialization.
Implementing the mathematical idea from singularity community, we encode the critical distance surface as an implicit surface
$\mathcal{I}$
in the augmented parameter space. A point
p
s
= (
p
,
s
) is in the augmented parametric space
$\mathbb R^3 = \mathbb R^2 \times \mathbb R$
, where
p
varies over
$\mathbb R^2$
. In most situations, when
p
is perturbed, its corresponding critical distances can be evolved without structural change by marching along a sectional curve on
$\mathcal{I}$
. However, occasionally, when the perturbation crosses the evolute of
γ
, there is a transition event at which a pair of
p
’s current critical distances is annihilated, or a new pair is created and added to the set of
p
’s critical distances. To
safely
eliminate any global search for critical distances, we develop
robust
and efficient algorithm to perform the detection and computation of transition events.
Additional transition events caused by various curve discontinuities are also investigated. Our implementation assumes a B-spline representation for the curve and has interactive speed even on a lower end laptop computer.