Harmonic Functions for Rotational Symmetry Vector Fields

dc.contributor.authorShen, Zhongweien_US
dc.contributor.authorFang, Xianzhongen_US
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xinguoen_US
dc.contributor.authorBao, Hujunen_US
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Jinen_US
dc.contributor.editorEitan Grinspun and Bernd Bickel and Yoshinori Dobashien_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-11T05:21:08Z
dc.date.available2016-10-11T05:21:08Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractRepresenting rotational symmetry vector as a set of vectors is not suitable for design due to lacking of a consistent ordering for measurement. In this paper we introduce a spectral method to find rotation invariant harmonic functions for symmetry vector field design. This method is developed for 3D vector fields, but it is applicable in 2D. Given the finite symmetry group G of a symmetry vector field v(x) on a 3D domain W, we formulate the harmonic function h(s) as a stationary point of group G. Using the real spherical harmonic (SH) bases, we showed the coefficients of the harmonic functions are an eigenvector of the SH rotation matrices corresponding to group G. Instead of solving eigen problems to obtain the eigenvector, we developed a forward constructive method based on orthogonal group theory. The harmonic function found by our method is not only invariant under G, but also expressive and can distinguish different rotations with respect to G. At last, we demonstrate some vector field design results with tetrahedron-symmetry, cube-symmetry and dodecahedron-symmetry groups.en_US
dc.description.number7
dc.description.sectionheadersGeometry
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume35
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13047
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages507-516
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13047
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13047
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.5 [Computer Graphics]
dc.subjectComputational Geometry and Object Modeling
dc.subjectGeometric algorithms
dc.titleHarmonic Functions for Rotational Symmetry Vector Fieldsen_US
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