Diffusionnet: Discretization agnostic learning on surfaces

N Sharp, S Attaiki, K Crane, M Ovsjanikov - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a new general-purpose approach to deep learning on three-dimensional
surfaces based on the insight that a simple diffusion layer is highly effective for spatial …

Parametric topology optimization design and analysis of additively manufactured joints in spatial grid structures

MT Chen, W Zuo, Y Chen, O Zhao, B Cheng… - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a complete computer-aided workflow for the parametric topology
optimization (TO) design, numerical analysis and additive manufacturing (AM) of steel joints …

State of the art in methods and representations for fabrication‐aware design

AH Bermano, T Funkhouser… - Computer Graphics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Computational manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing hold the potential for
creating objects with previously undreamed‐of combinations of functionality and physical …

The heat method for distance computation

K Crane, C Weischedel, M Wardetzky - Communications of the ACM, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the heat method for solving the single-or multiple-source shortest path
problem on both flat and curved domains. A key insight is that distance computation can be …

A survey of algorithms for geodesic paths and distances

K Crane, M Livesu, E Puppo, Y Qin - arxiv preprint arxiv:2007.10430, 2020 - arxiv.org
Numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on curved domains, as well as the
associated geodesic distance, arises in a broad range of applications across digital …

Surface simplification using intrinsic error metrics

HTD Liu, M Gillespie, B Chislett, N Sharp… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
This paper describes a method for fast simplification of surface meshes. Whereas past
methods focus on visual appearance, our goal is to solve equations on the surface. Hence …

[BUCH][B] Generalized barycentric coordinates in computer graphics and computational mechanics

K Hormann, N Sukumar - 2017 - books.google.com
In Generalized Barycentric Coordinates in Computer Graphics and Computational
Mechanics, eminent computer graphics and computational mechanics researchers provide …

The vector heat method

N Sharp, Y Soliman, K Crane - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2019 - dl.acm.org
This article describes a method for efficiently computing parallel transport of tangent vectors
on curved surfaces, or more generally, any vector-valued data on a curved manifold. More …

Discrete differential operators on polygonal meshes

F De Goes, A Butts, M Desbrun - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Geometry processing of surface meshes relies heavily on the discretization of differential
operators such as gradient, Laplacian, and covariant derivative. While a variety of discrete …

Vector field processing on triangle meshes

F De Goes, M Desbrun, Y Tong - ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Courses, 2016 - dl.acm.org
While scalar fields on surfaces have been staples of geometry processing, the use of
tangent vector fields has steadily grown in geometry processing over the last two decades …