A Method For Controlling Skew on Linked Surfaces

Proceedings, 8th International Meshing Roundtable, South Lake Tahoe, CA, U.S.A., pp.377-385, October 1999

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RESEARCH
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Steven E. Benzley
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, U.S.A.
Email: seb@byu.edu

David R. White
Sandia National Laboratories
Email: drwhite@sandia.gov

Scott Mitchell
Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research
Email: samitch@sandia.gov

Abstract
A new method for lessening skew in mapped and submapped meshes is presented. This new method involves progressive subdivision of a surface into loops consisting of four sides. Using these loops, matching constraints can be set on the curves of the surface, which will propagate interval assignments across the surface, allowing a mesh with a better skew metric to be generated

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