Incomplete list of Course Source Papers

524 Computer Graphics: Modelling

Spring 2024

The list below references most relevant source papers for the basic material taught in class.  The best source for recent publications is http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/. Look for papers presented at SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, SGP & SMI.

Differential geometry

• N.Dyn, K.Hormann, S.-J. Kim, D.Levin, Optimizing 3d triangulations using discrete curvature analysis, Mathematical methods for curves and surfaces, 2001
• M. Meyer, M. Desbrun, P. Schröder and A. H. Barr. Discrete differential-geometry operators for triangulated 2-manifolds. In Visualization and Mathematics III, H.-C. Hege and K. Polthier eds., pp. 35–57, 2003. [PDF]
• David Cohen-Steiner and Jean-Marie Morvan. Restricted Delaunay triangulations and normal cycle. In Proc. 19th Annu. ACM Sympos. Comput. Geom., pages 237--246, 2003. [PDF]

Mesh Smoothing

• G. Taubin. A signal processing approach to fair surface design. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1995. [PDF]
• G. Taubin. Geometric signal processing on polygonal meshes. Eurographics 2000 State of the Art Report, August 2000. [PDF]
• M. Desbrun, M. Meyer, P. Schröder, and A. Barr. Implicit fairing of arbitrary meshes using diffusion and curvature flow. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1999, pp. 317–324, 1999. [PDF]
• S. Fleishman, I. Drori, and D. Cohen-Or. Bilateral mesh denoising. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003, pp. 950–953, 2003. [PDF]

Simplification

• M. Garland and P. Heckbert. Surface simplification using quadric error metrics. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 97, pp. 209–216, August 1997. [PDF]
• H. Hoppe. Progressive meshes. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 96, pp. 99–108, August 1996. [PDF]

Compression

• J. Rossignac. Edgebreaker: Connectivity compression for triangle meshes. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 5(1):47–61, January-March 1999. [PDF]
• C. Touma and C. Gotsman. Triangle mesh compression. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 98, pages 26–34, June 1998. [PDF]
• Olga Sorkine, Daniel Cohen-Or, Sivan Toledo, High-Pass Quantization for Mesh Encoding, SGP2003, [PDF]

Parameterization

• K, Hormann, A. Sheffer, M. Desbrun, B. Levy, K. Zhou, http://www2.in.tu-clausthal.de/~hormann/parameterization/index.html, Course Notes on Mesh Parameterization. Siggraph 2007.
• Alla Sheffer, Emil Praun, and Kenneth Rose, Mesh Parameterization Methods and Their Applications Now Publishers, 2006, ISBN  978-1-933019-43-7, (also Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, volume 2(2),2006).
• Levy Bruno and Petitjean Sylvain and Ray Nicolas and Maillot Jérome, Least Squares Conformal Maps for Automatic Texture Atlas Generation, SIGGRAPH 02 [PDF]
• M. Floater and K. Hormann. Surface parameterization: A tutorial and survey. [PDF]
• M. Floater. Mean value coordinates. Computer Aided Geometric Design, 20(1):19–27, March 2003. [PS]
• A. Sheffer and E. de Sturler, Parameterization of Faceted Surfaces for Meshing Using Angle Based Flattening, Engineering with Computers, 17 (3), 326-337, 2001.[PDF]
• A. Sheffer, B. Lévy, M. Mogilnitsky, A, Bogomyakov, ABF++: Fast and Robust Angle Based Flattening, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(2), 311-330 2005.

Remeshing

• P. Alliez, M. Meyer, and M. Desbrun. Interactive Geometry Remeshing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2002), 21:347–354, 2002. [PDF]
• P. Alliez, D. Cohen-Steiner, O. Devillers, B. Levy, and M. Desbrun. Anisotropic Polygonal Remeshing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2003), 2003. [PDF]
• V. Surazhsky and C. Gotsman. Explicit surface remeshing. Proceedings of the Symposium on Mesh Processing, June 2003. [PDF]
• Direct Anisotropic Quad-Dominant Remeshing Martin Marinov, Leif Kobbelt In Pacific Graphics 2004, October 2004. [PDF]

Subdivision

• Subdivision for Modeling and Animation. SIGGRAPH 2000 Course Notes. D. Zorin and P. Schröder, Editors. [PDF]
• I. Guskov, K. Vidimce, W. Sweldens, and P. Schroeder, Normal Meshes, 95 - 102, SIGGRAPH 1999. [PDF]
• T. DeRose, M. Kass, T. Truong, Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation, SIGGRAPH 1998. [PDF][movie]

Mesh Deformation and Editing

• Olga Sorkine, State-of-The-Art Report: Laplacian Mesh Processing, Eurographics 2005; appeared in Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 25(4), 2006, under the title "Differential Representations for Mesh Processing"
• O. Sorkine, Y. Lipman, D. Cohen-Or, M. Alexa, C. Rössl, H.-P. Seidel. Laplacian surface editing. In Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, pp. 179–188, June 2004. [Online]
• Y. Yu, K. Zhou, D. Xu, X. Shi, H. Bao, B. Guo and H.-Y. Shum. Mesh editing with poisson-based gradient field manipulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2004) 23(3), August 2004. [PDF]
• Sheffer, V. Kraevoy, Pyramid Coordinates for Morphing and Deformation, Proc. Second International Symposium on 3DPVT (3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission), 68-75, 2004 [PDF]
• R. W. Sumner and J. Popovic. Deformation transfer for triangle meshes. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2004). [Online]

Surface reconstruction & completion

• W. Lorensen and H. Cline. Marching Cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87, pp. 163–169, 1987. [PDF]
• N. Amenta, M. Bern, and M. Kamvysselis. A new Voronoi-based surface reconstruction algorithm. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98, pp. 415–422, July 1998. [PS.gz] [PDF]
• B. Curless and M. Levoy. A volumetric method for building complex models from range images. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 96, pp. 303–312, 1996. [PDF]
• H. Hoppe, T. DeRose, T. Duchamp, J. McDonald, and W. Stuetzle. Surface reconstruction from unorganized points. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 92, pp. 71–78, 1992. [PDF]
• Reconstruction and Representation of 3D Objects with Radial Basis Functions, J. C. Carr, R. K. Beatson, J. B. Cherrie, T. J. Mitchell, W. R. Fright, B. C. McCallum, and T. R. Evans. Computer Graphics (Siggraph), pages 67-76, 2001. [PDF]
• Ravi Krishna Kolluri, Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, James F. O'Brien, Spectral Surface Reconstruction From Noisy Point Clouds, SGP 2004, [PDF]
• Levy Bruno, Dual Domain Extrapolation, ,SIGGRAPH 03 - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) [PDF]
• V.Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, Template Based Mesh Completion, Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2005.[PDF]
• Andrei Sharf, Marc Alexa and Daniel Cohen-Or, Context-based Surface Completion, SIGGRAPH 2004 [PDF]

Segmentation/Clustering

• P. Sander, Z. Wood, S. Gortler, J. Snyder, H. Hoppe, Multi-chart geometry images, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2003, 146-155.[PDF]
• Kun Zhou, John Snyder, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum, Iso-charts: Stretch-driven Mesh Parameterization using Spectral Analysis, SGP 2004, [PDF]
• Jun Mitani, Hiromasa Suzuki ,Making Papercraft Toys From Meshes Using Strip-Based Approximate Unfolding, SIGGRAPH 2004, [PDF]
• David Cohen-Steiner , Pierre Alliez ,Mathieu Desbrun, Variational Shape Approximation SIGGRAPH 2004, [PDF]
• D Julius, V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, D-Charts: Quasi-Developable Mesh Segmentation, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc Eurographics 2005), 24(3), 981-990, 2005.[PDF]