Closed-form Quadrangulation of N-Sided Patches

Abstract

We analyze the problem of quadrangulating a $n$-sided patch, each side at its boundary subdivided into a given number of edges, using a single irregular vertex (or none, when $n = 4$) that breaks the otherwise fully regular lattice. We derive, in an analytical closed-form, (1) the necessary and sufficient conditions that a patch must meet to admit this quadrangulation, and (2) a full description of the resulting tessellation(s).