Segmenting Periodic Reliefs on Triangle Meshes

Shenglan Liu, Ralph R. Martin, Frank C. Langbein, Paul L. Rosin

Abstract: Decorative reliefs are widely used for e.g. packaging and porcelain design. In periodic reliefs, the relief repeats a pattern, for example all the way around an underlying surface of revolution. Reverse-engineering of existing reliefs allows them to be re-applied to different base surfaces; we show here how to segment a single repeat unit of a periodic relief starting from a scanned triangle mesh.