The Affine Heat Method

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dc.contributor.authorSoliman, Yousufen_US
dc.contributor.authorSharp, Nicholasen_US
dc.contributor.editorAttene, Marcoen_US
dc.contributor.editorSellán, Silviaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-20T07:40:49Z
dc.date.available2025-06-20T07:40:49Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThis work presents the Affine Heat Method for computing logarithmic maps. These maps are local surface parameterizations defined by the direction and distance along shortest geodesic paths from a given source point, and arise in many geometric tasks from local texture mapping to geodesic distance-based optimization. Our main insight is to define a connection Laplacian with a homogeneous coordinate accounting for the translation between tangent coordinate frames; the action of short-time heat flow under this Laplacian gives both the direction and distance from the source, along shortest geodesics. The resulting numerical method is straightforward to implement, fast, and improves accuracy compared to past approaches. We present two variants of the method, one of which enables pre-computation for fast repeated solves, while the other resolves the map even near the cut locus in high detail. As with prior heat methods, our approach can be applied in any dimension and to any spatial discretization, including polygonal meshes and point clouds, which we demonstrate along with applications of the method.en_US
dc.description.number5
dc.description.sectionheadersFields on Meshes
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume44
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.70205
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages16 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70205
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111/cgf70205
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International License
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleThe Affine Heat Methoden_US
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