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Delaunay Tetrahedralization using an Advancing-Front Approach

This paper presents a procedure for eecient generation of three-dimensional unstructured meshes of tetrahedral elements. Initially, a constrained Delaunay mesh is generated wherein internal points are created using advancing-front point placement and are inserted using a Delaunay method. The overall procedure is applied repetitively until the mesh satisses a desired element size distribution fu...

A Topological Framework for Advancing Front Triangulation

In this paper we study advancing front methods for surface reconstruction. We propose a topological framework based on handlebody theory to implement such methods in a simple and robust way. As an example of the application of this framework we show an implementation of the Ball-Pivoting Algorithm. Triangulating the Stanford Bunny using the Ball-Pivoting advancing front algorithm.

Biting: Advancing Front Meets Sphere Packing

A key step in the nite element method is to generate a high quality mesh that is as small as possible for an input domain. Several meshing methods and heuristics have been developed and implemented. Methods based on advancing front, Delaunay triangulations, and quadtrees/octrees are among the most popular ones. Advancing front uses simple data structures and is eecient. Unfortunately, in genera...

Advancing Front Quadrilateral Meshing Using Triangle Transformations

Quad-morphing is a new technique used for generating quadrilaterals from an existing triangle mesh. Beginning with an initial triangulation, triangles are systematically transformed and combined. An advancing front method is used to determine the order of transformations. An all-quadrilateral mesh containing elements aligned with the area boundaries with few irregular internal nodes can be gene...