Extending Metric-Based Surface Meshing to G1-Connected Patch Complexes

2nd Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 1999

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

CISE, U of Florida
jorg@cise.ufl.edu

Abstract
Given a surface, or surface piece represented as a map from a two- dimensional domain to 3-space, say a NURBS patch, [Chen,Bishop 97], [Cuillere 98] and [Tristano, Owen, Canann 98] have developed efficient mesh generation techniques and tools based on the metric or first fundamental form of the surface (see also [George, Borouchaki 98]).

A recurring challenge in NURBS-based CAD systems is the smooth stitching together of such NURBS patches, each being supported on a