Polyhedral design with blended $n$-sided interpolants

Abstract

A new parametric surface representation is proposed that interpolates the vertices of a given closed mesh of arbitrary topology. Smoothly connecting quadrilateral patches are created by blending local, multi-sided quadratic interpolants. In the non-four-sided case, this requires a special parameterization technique involving rational curves. Appropriate handling of triangular subpatches and alternative subpatch representations are also discussed.