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Main Authors: Basile, Dante, Tricoche, Xavier, Lo, Martin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03791
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author Basile, Dante
Tricoche, Xavier
Lo, Martin
author_facet Basile, Dante
Tricoche, Xavier
Lo, Martin
contents High-dimensional visual computer models are poised to revolutionize the space mission design process. The circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) gives rise to high-dimensional toroidal manifolds that are of immense interest to mission designers. We present a meshing technique which leverages an embedding-agnostic parameterization to enable topologically accurate modelling and intuitive visualization of toroidal manifolds in arbitrarily high-dimensional embedding spaces. This work describes the extension of a discrete one-form-based toroidal point cloud meshing method to high-dimensional point clouds sampled along quasi-periodic orbital trajectories in the CR3BP. The resulting meshes are enhanced through the application of an embedding-agnostic triangle-sidedness assignment algorithm. This significantly increases the intuitiveness of interpreting the meshes after they are downprojected to 3D for visualization. These models provide novel surface-based representations of high-dimensional topologies which have so far only been shown as points or curves. This success demonstrates the effectiveness of differential geometric methods for characterizing manifolds with complex, high-dimensional embedding spaces, laying the foundation for new models and visualizations of high-dimensional solution spaces for dynamical systems. Such representations promise to enhance the utility of the three-body problem for the visual inspection and design of space mission trajectories by enabling the application of proven computational surface visualization and analysis methods to underlying solution manifolds.
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spellingShingle Meshing of High-Dimensional Toroidal Manifolds from Quasi-Periodic Three-Body Problem Dynamics using Parameterization via Discrete One-Forms
Basile, Dante
Tricoche, Xavier
Lo, Martin
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High-dimensional visual computer models are poised to revolutionize the space mission design process. The circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) gives rise to high-dimensional toroidal manifolds that are of immense interest to mission designers. We present a meshing technique which leverages an embedding-agnostic parameterization to enable topologically accurate modelling and intuitive visualization of toroidal manifolds in arbitrarily high-dimensional embedding spaces. This work describes the extension of a discrete one-form-based toroidal point cloud meshing method to high-dimensional point clouds sampled along quasi-periodic orbital trajectories in the CR3BP. The resulting meshes are enhanced through the application of an embedding-agnostic triangle-sidedness assignment algorithm. This significantly increases the intuitiveness of interpreting the meshes after they are downprojected to 3D for visualization. These models provide novel surface-based representations of high-dimensional topologies which have so far only been shown as points or curves. This success demonstrates the effectiveness of differential geometric methods for characterizing manifolds with complex, high-dimensional embedding spaces, laying the foundation for new models and visualizations of high-dimensional solution spaces for dynamical systems. Such representations promise to enhance the utility of the three-body problem for the visual inspection and design of space mission trajectories by enabling the application of proven computational surface visualization and analysis methods to underlying solution manifolds.
title Meshing of High-Dimensional Toroidal Manifolds from Quasi-Periodic Three-Body Problem Dynamics using Parameterization via Discrete One-Forms
topic Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03791