Volumetric models of 3D objects have recently been introduced into the reverse engineering (RE) process. Grid-based methods are considered as the major technique for reconstructing surfaces from these volumetric models. This is mainly due to the efficiency and simplicity of these methods. However, these grid-based methods suffer from a number of inherent drawbacks, resulting from the fact that the imposed Cartesian grid in general is not well adapted to the surface, neither in size nor in orientation. In order to overcome the above obstacles a new iso-surface extraction method is proposed for volumetric models. The main idea is first to construct a geometrical field that is induced by the object’s shape. This geometrical field represents the natural directions and a grid cell size for each point in the domain. Then, the imposed volumetric grid is deformed by the produced geometrical field toward the object’s shape. The iso-surface meshes can be extracted from the resulting adaptive grid by any conventional grid-based contouring technique. The proposed method provides better approximation of the unknown surface and exhibits anisotropy, which is present inherently in the surface. Moreover, since the produced meshes are quad-dominant, Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces are directly constructed from these meshes.
Skip Nav Destination
e-mail: mesergei@technion.ac.il
Article navigation
December 2006
Technical Papers
A New Volume Warping Method for Surface Reconstruction
Sergei Azernikov,
Sergei Azernikov
Laboratory for CAD & Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: mesergei@technion.ac.il
Technion — IIT
, Haifa 32000, Israel
Search for other works by this author on:
Anath Fischer
Anath Fischer
Laboratory for CAD & Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Technion — IIT
, Haifa 32000, Israel
Search for other works by this author on:
Sergei Azernikov
Laboratory for CAD & Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Technion — IIT
, Haifa 32000, Israele-mail: mesergei@technion.ac.il
Anath Fischer
Laboratory for CAD & Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Technion — IIT
, Haifa 32000, IsraelJ. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. Dec 2006, 6(4): 355-363 (9 pages)
Published Online: May 30, 2006
Article history
Received:
August 9, 2005
Revised:
May 30, 2006
Citation
Azernikov, S., and Fischer, A. (May 30, 2006). "A New Volume Warping Method for Surface Reconstruction." ASME. J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. December 2006; 6(4): 355–363. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2356500
Download citation file:
Get Email Alerts
Mathematical Principle for Calculating Contacting Curve Length of Involute Helicon Gearing
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng (January 2025)
Design Knowledge as Attention Emphasizer in LLM-based Sentiment Analysis
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng
Related Articles
A Complementary Sensor Approach to Reverse Engineering
J. Manuf. Sci. Eng (February,2001)
Interactive Feature Modeling for Reverse Engineering
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng (December,2006)
Surface Reconstruction of Freeform Objects Based on Multiresolution Volumetric Method
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng (December,2003)
Automatic Detection of Tangential Discontinuities in Point Cloud Data
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng (June,2008)
Related Proceedings Papers
Related Chapters
Research on Autobody Panels Developmental Technology Based on Reverse Engineering
International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering, 5th (ICACTE 2012)
Computer Aided Reverse Engineering
Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
Specifying Distributed Systems Using a Diagramatic Notation
International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering, 3rd (ICSTE 2011)