Polygon Mesh Processing - Hardcover

by Mario Botsch (Author), Leif Kobbelt (Author), Mark Pauly (Author)

Over the last several years, triangle meshes have become increasingly popular, as irregular triangle meshes have developed into a valuable alternative to traditional spline surfaces. This book discusses the whole geometry processing pipeline based on triangle meshes. The pipeline starts with data input, for example, a model acquired by 3D scanning techniques. This data can then go through processes of error removal, mesh creation, smoothing, conversion, morphing, and more. The authors detail techniques for those processes using triangle meshes.

Author Biography

Leif Kobbelt is a professor of Computer Graphics & Multimedia at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Mario Botsch is a professor of Computer Science at Bielefeld University and leads the Computer Graphics & Geometry Processing Group. Mark Pauly is an assistant professor in the computer science department of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Pierre Alliez is a researcher in Computer Science at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, in the GEOMETRICA group. Bruno Lvy is a senior researcher in INRIA-NGE, and a member of the LORIA lab. He is the scientific head of the ALICE project team.