Constructing self-supporting surfaces with planar quadrilateral elements

• Main Authors: Ma, Long, Yao, Sidan, Zheng, Jianmin, Liu, Yang, Zhou, Yuanfeng, Xin, Shi-Qing, He, Ying
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Self-Supporting Surfaces; Planar Quadrilateral Meshes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160723
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We present a simple yet effective method for constructing 3D self-supporting surfaces with planar quadrilateral (PQ) elements. Starting with a triangular discretization of a self-supporting surface, we first compute the principal curvatures and directions of each triangular face using a new discrete...