An Algorithm for Cutting 3D Surface Meshes

Author

Viet, Huynh Quang Huy ; Kamada, Takahiro ; Tanaka, Hiromi T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Human & Comput. Intelligence, Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

20-24 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

762

Lastpage

765

Abstract

The cutting operation of 3D surface meshes plays an important role in surgery simulators. One of the important requirements for surgical simulators is the faithful representation of interaction paths of a surgical tool. We propose a new strategy for cutting on surface meshes: refinement and separate strategy consisting of the refinement followed by the separation of the refined mesh element.The proposed strategy gives the faithful representation of interaction paths.

Keywords

digital simulation; haptic interfaces; medical computing; solid modelling; surgery; virtual reality; 3D surface mesh cutting; adaptive mesh refinement; cutting simulation; deformable object; haptic interface; interaction path representation; mesh element; surgery simulation; surgical tool; virtual sculpting; Adaptive mesh refinement; Competitive intelligence; Computational modeling; Costs; Cutting tools; Deformable models; Haptic interfaces; Humans; Intelligent structures; Surgery; adaptive; cutting simulation; deformable object; haptic interface; sculpting; surgery simulation; virtual;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 2006. ICPR 2006. 18th International Conference on

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2521-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2006.233

Filename

1699952