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A Sharp Conservative Offset for Marching Cubes

Marching Cubes gets a sharp conservative offset for grid-sampled 1-Lipschitz fields, with a provable threshold of √3/2·h. For signed distance functions and similar data, that means a guaranteed enclosure of …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 1 week, 2 days ago
Dipole Diffusion Error in Thin Geometry: Optical Thickness Laws for Grid-Free Subsurface Scattering

For graphics programmers working on skin, wax, or other thin translucent materials, this paper puts numbers on a long-standing dipole problem: the geometry error falls like about 1.99e^-2τ for diffuse …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Trajectory Optimization for Collision-Aware Redundant Robotic Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing by Constrained Gradient Projection

A new gradient-projection method for robotic multi-axis additive manufacturing keeps nozzle placement under 10 μm while cutting max joint jerk by up to 77.6%. For teams working on fabrication pipelines, …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 2 months, 3 weeks ago