Zoe Justine Wood, Age 542515 Selrose Ln, Santa Barbara, CA 93109

7586488, Sep 8, 2009

Aug 22, 2007

11/895179

Pedro V. Sander - Cambridge MA, US
Zoe J. Wood - Santa Barbara CA, US
Steven J. Gortler - Boston MA, US
John M. Snyder - Redmond WA, US
Hugues H. Hoppe - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06T 15/00

345423, 345581, 345586

Techniques and tools for mesh processing are described. For example, a multi-chart geometry image represents arbitrary surfaces on object models. The multi-chart geometry image is created by resampling a surface onto a regular 2D grid, using a flexible atlas construction to map the surface piecewise onto charts of arbitrary shape. This added flexibility reduces parameterization distortion and thus provides greater geometric fidelity, particularly for shapes with long extremities, high genus, or disconnected components. As another example, zippering creates a watertight surface on reconstructed triangle meshes. The zippering unifies discrete paths of samples along chart boundaries to form the watertight mesh.

2005015, Jul 14, 2005

Jan 9, 2004

10/755206

Pedro Sander - Cambridge MA, US
Zoe Wood - Santa Barbara CA, US
Steven Gortler - Boston MA, US
John Snyder - Redmond WA, US
Hugues Hoppe - Redmond WA, US

G06T017/20

345423000

Techniques and tools for mesh processing are described. For example, a multi-chart geometry image represents arbitrary surfaces on object models. The multi-chart geometry image is created by resampling a surface onto a regular 2D grid, using a flexible atlas construction to map the surface piecewise onto charts of arbitrary shape. This added flexibility reduces parameterization distortion and thus provides greater geometric fidelity, particularly for shapes with long extremities, high genus, or disconnected components. As another example, zippering creates a watertight surface on reconstructed triangle meshes. The zippering unifies discrete paths of samples along chart boundaries to form the watertight mesh.