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Published on: November 9, 2012
As-Rigid-As-Possible molecular interpolation paths
Minh Khoa Nguyen1,2, Léonard Jaillet3,4, Stéphane Redon3,4
1Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France. minh-khoa.nguyen@inria.fr.
Abstract:
This paper proposes a new method to generate interpolation paths between two given molecular conformations. It relies on the As-Rigid-As-Possible (ARAP) paradigm used in Computer Graphics to manipulate complex meshes while preserving their essential structural characteristics. The adaptation of ARAP approaches to the case of molecular systems is presented in this contribution. Experiments conducted on a large set of benchmarks show how such a strategy can efficiently compute relevant interpolation paths with large conformational rearrangements.
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