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International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV'05)
A Geometric Interpretation of Weighted Normal Vectors and Its Improvements
Beijing, China
July 26-July 29
ISBN: 0-7695-2392-7
Sheng-Gwo Chen, National Chiayi University
Jyh-Yang Wu, National Chung Cheng University
The weighted normal vector method is applied to estimate the curvatures on surface in 1990s [1, 2, 4, 5]. However, this estimation method still causes some serious problems, such as when two adjacent triangles are of coplanarity. In this paper, our main goals are to provide a geometric interpretation of weighted normal vectors and then give an improvement to handle this problem. In 2004, we pointed out that the normal vector estimation with area weights can not distinguish the difference of contributions when two different triangles have the same area. To deal with this drawback, we presented the centroid weight to improve the estimation of normal vectors. Here, we give a particular interpretation of centroid weight and extend this idea to introduce a new weight, the gravitational weight.
Index Terms:
Centroid weight, gravitational weight, geometric interpretation
Citation:
Sheng-Gwo Chen, Jyh-Yang Wu, "A Geometric Interpretation of Weighted Normal Vectors and Its Improvements," cgiv, pp.422-425, International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV'05), 2005
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