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Unstructured Computational Meshes for Subdivision Geometry of Scanned Geological Objects
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| Proceedings of the 14th International Meshing Roundtable |
| 10.1007/3-540-29090-7_5 |
| Byron W. Hanks |
5. Unstructured Computational Meshes for Subdivision Geometry of Scanned Geological Objects
Andrey A. Mezentsev2 , Antonio Munjiza3 and John-Paul Latham2 
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Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK |
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Department of Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK |
Summary
This paper presents a generic approach to generation of surface and volume unstructured meshes for complex free-form objects,
obtained by laser scanning. A four-stage automated procedure is proposed for discrete data sets: surface mesh extraction from
Delaunay tetrahedrization of scanned points, surface mesh simplification, definition of triangular interpolating subdivision
faces, Delaunay volumetric meshing of obtained geometry. The mesh simplification approach is based on the medial Hausdorff
distance envelope between scanned and simplified geometric surface meshes. The simplified mesh is directly used as an unstructured
control mesh for subdivision surface representation that precisely captures arbitrary shapes of faces, composing the boundary
of scanned objects. CAD model in Boundary Representation retains sharp and smooth features of the geometry for further meshing.
Volumetric meshes with the MezGen code are used in the combined Finite-Discrete element methods for simulation of complex
phenomena within the integrated Virtual Geoscience Workbench environment (VGW).
Key words laser scanning - unstructured mesh - mesh simplification - subdivision surfaces
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