Fast winding numbers for soups and clouds

Abstract

Inside-outside determination is a basic building block for higher-level geometry processing operations. Generalized winding numbers provide a robust answer for triangle meshes, regardless of defects such as self-intersections, holes or degeneracies. In this paper, we further generalize the winding number to point clouds. Previous methods for evaluating the winding number are slow for completely disconnected surfaces, such as triangle soups or-in the extreme case- point clouds. We propose a tree-based algorithm to reduce the asymptotic complexity of generalized winding number computation, while closely approximating the exact value. Armed with a fast evaluation, we demonstrate the winding number in a variety of new applications: voxelization, signing distances, generating 3D printer paths, defect-tolerant mesh booleans and point set surfaces.

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Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Computer graphics

    • Shape modeling

      • Mesh models

      • Point-based models

      • Volumetric models