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Geodesic Computations on Surfaces

Krishnan, Karthik
Kitware Inc
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3415
New: Prefer using the following doi: https://doi.org/10.54294/4rsdcy
Published in The VTK Journal - 2013 January-December Submissions.
Submitted by Karthik Krishnan on 2013-06-26 22:33:53.

The computation of geodesic distances on a triangle mesh has many applications in geometry processing. The fast marching method provides an approximation of the true geodesic distance field. We provide VTK classes to compute geodesics on triangulated surface meshes. This includes classes for computing the geodesic distance field from a set of seeds and to compute the geodesic curve between source and destination point(s) by back-tracking along the gradient of the distance field. The fast marching toolkit (Peyre et. al.) is internally used. A variety of options are exposed to guide front propagation including the ability to specify propagation weights, constrain to a region, specify exclusion regions, and distance based termination criteria. Interpolators that plug into a contour widget, are provided to enable interactive tracing of paths on meshes.