Dec. 2000
Washington University.
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Simplified piston |
Its skeletal graph. |
"A powerful geometric abstraction that provide useful intermediate representations for a number of geometric operations on solid models including feature recognition, shape decomposition, finite element mesh generation, and shape design."
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Filleted block |
Pierced cylindrical cap |
"A systematic and conceptually simple method is developed to generate hexahedral meshes for solid models of 3D objects. The method is rational and systematic due to a consistent, recursive utilization of skeletons to associate points on object boundaries with lower dimensional skeleton entities."