Medials for Meshing and More
Armstrong, C.G., D.J. Robinson, R.M. McKeag, T.S. Li, S.J. Bridgett, R.J. Donaghy and C.A. McGleenan
Proceedings, 4th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.277-288, October 1995
The medial axis transform provides an alternative representation of geometric models that has many useful properties for analysis modelling. Applications include decomposition of general solids into subregions for mapped meshing, identification of slender regions for dimensional reduction and recognition of small features for suppression. A set of operations for idealisation of the analysis domain are described. These can be specified either interactively or automatically based on features of the medial axis.
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