Smart Variations: Functional Substructures for Part Compatibility
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2013
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Abstract
As collections of 3D models continue to grow, reusing model parts allows generation of novel model variations. Naïvely swapping parts across models, however, leads to implausible results, especially when mixing parts across different model families. Hence, the user has to manually ensure that the final model remains functionally valid. We claim that certain symmetric functional arrangements (SFARR-s), which are special arrangements among symmetrically related substructures, bear close relation to object functions. Hence, we propose a purely geometric approach based on such substructures to match, replace, and position triplets of parts to create non-trivial, yet functionally plausible, model variations. We demonstrate that starting even from a small set of models such a simple geometric approach can produce a diverse set of non-trivial and plausible model variations.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.12039,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Smart Variations: Functional Substructures for Part Compatibility}},
author = {Zheng, Youyi and Cohen-Or, Daniel and Mitra, Niloy J.},
year = {2013},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.12039}
}