Ravi Sundaram

US Patent:

20140160127, Jun 12, 2014

Filed:

Nov 29, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/093349

Inventors:

- Canonsburg PA, US
Ravi Sundaram - Bethel Park PA, US

International Classification:

G06T 15/08

US Classification:

345424

Abstract:

In a system for facilitating mesh generation corresponding to a volumetric, prismatic object, generalized polyhedrons representing at least a portion of a layer of the volumetric object are transformed into a set of convex polyhedrons based on, at least in part, the prismatic properties of the volumetric object. The convex polyhedrons corresponding to a layer are decomposed into a set of tetrahedrons by accounting for an intersecting and/or overlapping edge of a polyhedron in an adjacent layer, so that the set of tetrahedrons automatically, i.e., without having to enforce any continuity requirements after tetrahedron generation, forms a mesh of that is continuous with tetrahedrons corresponding to the adjacent layer.