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Discrete constant mean curvature nets in space forms: Steiner's formula and Christoffel duality
We show that the discrete principal nets in quadrics of constant curvature
that have constant mixed area mean curvature can be characterized by the
existence of a K\"onigs dual in a concentric quadric.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, pdfLaTeX (plain pdfTeX source included as bak
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On a new conformal functional for simplicial surfaces
We introduce a smooth quadratic conformal functional and its weighted version
where
is the extrinsic intersection angle of the circumcircles of the
triangles of the mesh sharing the edge and is the valence of
vertex . Besides minimizing the squared local conformal discrete Willmore
energy this functional also minimizes local differences of the angles
. We investigate the minimizers of this functionals for simplicial
spheres and simplicial surfaces of nontrivial topology. Several remarkable
facts are observed. In particular for most of randomly generated simplicial
polyhedra the minimizers of and are inscribed polyhedra. We
demonstrate also some applications in geometry processing, for example, a
conformal deformation of surfaces to the round sphere. A partial theoretical
explanation through quadratic optimization theory of some observed phenomena is
presented.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "Curves and
Surfaces, 8th International Conference", June 201
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