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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2006
Applicants:

Michael Kaus, Toronto, CA;

Matthias Wolfgang Meyer, Hannover, DE;

Inventors:

Michael Kaus, Toronto, CA;

Matthias Wolfgang Meyer, Hannover, DE;

Assignee:

Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 17/205 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method for producing a triangulation of a surface of a physical object the method comprising the steps of generating an intermediate mesh representation of the surface out of surface voxels () and detecting at least one T-junction in the intermediate mesh representation (). The method further comprising the steps of decomposing of the at least one T-junction into at least one triangle and at least one two-point-polygon (), and generating the triangulation of the surface out of the modelled intermediate mesh representation ().


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