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Main Authors: Gilat, Tom, Gilat, Ben
Format: Preprint
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09875
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author Gilat, Tom
Gilat, Ben
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Gilat, Ben
contents We prove a novel method for the embedding of a 3-fold rotationally symmetric sphere-type mesh onto a subset of the plane with 3-fold rotational symmetry. The embedding is free-boundary with the only additional constraint on the image set is that its translations tile the plane, in turn this forces the angles at the embedding of the branch points in the construction. These parameterizations are optimal with respect to the Dirichlet energy functional defined on simplicial complexes. Since the parameterization is over a fixed area domain, it is conformal (i.e. a minimizer of the LSCM energy). The embedding is done by a novel construction of a torus from 63 copies of the original sphere. As a foundation for this result we first prove the optimality of the embedding of disk-type meshes onto special types of triangles in the plane, and rectangles. The embedding of the 3-fold symmetric torus is full rank and so cannot be reduced by simpler constructions. 3-fold symmetric surfaces appear in nature, for example the surface of the 3-fold symmetric proteins PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 which are an important target of current studies.
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spellingShingle Fast Conformal Parameterization of Disks and Sphere Sectors
Gilat, Tom
Gilat, Ben
Computational Geometry
We prove a novel method for the embedding of a 3-fold rotationally symmetric sphere-type mesh onto a subset of the plane with 3-fold rotational symmetry. The embedding is free-boundary with the only additional constraint on the image set is that its translations tile the plane, in turn this forces the angles at the embedding of the branch points in the construction. These parameterizations are optimal with respect to the Dirichlet energy functional defined on simplicial complexes. Since the parameterization is over a fixed area domain, it is conformal (i.e. a minimizer of the LSCM energy). The embedding is done by a novel construction of a torus from 63 copies of the original sphere. As a foundation for this result we first prove the optimality of the embedding of disk-type meshes onto special types of triangles in the plane, and rectangles. The embedding of the 3-fold symmetric torus is full rank and so cannot be reduced by simpler constructions. 3-fold symmetric surfaces appear in nature, for example the surface of the 3-fold symmetric proteins PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 which are an important target of current studies.
title Fast Conformal Parameterization of Disks and Sphere Sectors
topic Computational Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09875