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General Polyhedral Proximity Query



Abstract: The need to perform fast and accurate proximity queries arises frequently in physically-based modeling, simulation, animation, real-time interaction within a virtual environment, and game dynamics. The set of proximity queries include intersection detection, tolerance verification, exact and approximate minimum distance computation, and (disjoint) contact determination. Specialized data structures and algorithms have often been designed to perform each type of query separately. We present a unified approach to perform any of these queries seamlessly for general, rigid polyhedral objects with boundary representations which are orientable 2-manifolds. The proposed method involves a hierarchical data structure built upon a surface decomposition of the models. Furthermore, the incremental query algorithm takes advantage of coherence between successive frames. It has been applied to complex benchmarks and compares very favorably with earlier algorithms and systems.




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Stephen A. Ehmann and Ming C. Lin
Accurate and Fast Proximity Queries between Polyhedra Using Surface Decomposition .pdf (1.0 MB)
To appear in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics), 2001.

 
 
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Principle Investigators
 Ming Lin

Project Members
 Stephen Ehmann

 
Related Projects
  UNC Collide Research Group
  GAMMA: UNC Research Group On Geometric Algorithms for Modeling and Motion Applications

 
Funding Agencies
 DOE ASCI Award
 Army Research Office
 National Science Foundation
 Intel



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Author: Stephen Ehmann

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Copyright 2001