The Quad Layout Immersion: A Mathematically Equivalent Representation of a Surface Quadrilateral Layout

12/17/2020
by   Kendrick M. Shepherd, et al.
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Quadrilateral layouts on surfaces are valuable in texture mapping, and essential in generation of quadrilateral meshes and in fitting splines. Previous work has characterized such layouts as a special metric on a surface or as a meromorphic quartic differential with finite trajectories. In this work, a surface quadrilateral layout is alternatively characterized as a special immersion of a cut representation of the surface into the Euclidean plane. We call this a quad layout immersion. This characterization, while posed in smooth topology, naturally generalizes to piecewise-linear representations. As such, it mathematically describes and generalizes integer grid maps, which are common in computer graphics settings. Finally, the utility of the representation is demonstrated by computationally extracting quadrilateral layouts on surfaces of interest.

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