Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Oh no! Quads only!

I have found in general it can be difficult to get hold of a control mesh that is quads only, well proportioned, and represents something "interesting".



For this reason I thought I'd make one available which was obtained by taking the third example from the bottom given here http://iat.ubalt.edu/summers/math/platsol.htm and then typing the given function:

2 - (cos(x + T*y) + cos(x - T*y) + cos(y + T*z) + cos(y - T*z) + cos(z - T*x) + cos(z + T*x)), T=golden ratio

into Maple and then having Maple apply marching cubes to triangulate it. A retopo of this mesh is available here:

http://jbit.net/~sparky/academic/icosym_ctrl_744quads.obj

Hope others will find this useful.

2 comments:

  1. Very nice of you to share this with the graphics community Morten! Thanks!

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  2. You can use TopMod, it can generate intresting meshes and it can do quad remeshing

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