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    • Computer Graphics
    • Computational Geometry
    • Geometric Modeling

    Background:

    • 3D mesh processing often requires curve generation and manipulation.
    • Existing methods like mesh edges or splines have limitations in accuracy, versatility, and control.
    • Level set methods offer an implicit representation but traditionally struggle with complex constraints.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an efficient and versatile approach for curve design on 3D surfaces using level sets.
    • To enable robust control over curve properties such as smoothness, interpolation, and tangents.
    • To overcome the slow convergence of gradient flow methods for complex variational problems.

    Main Methods:

    • Formulating curve editing with constraints as a level set-based variational problem.
    • Solving the variational problem using Newton's method with local Hessian correction and trust-region strategy.
    • Employing narrow band acceleration for efficient computation.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method achieves versatile control over curve design on 3D meshes.
    • Demonstrates significantly improved performance with nearly quadratic convergence and near-linear complexity per iteration.
    • Successfully applied to interactive curve manipulation, boundary smoothing for surface segmentation, and path planning.

    Conclusions:

    • The level set-based variational approach provides a powerful and efficient solution for curve design on 3D meshes.
    • The enhanced Newton's method overcomes convergence issues, enabling complex constraint handling.
    • The method's versatility and performance make it suitable for various practical applications in computer graphics and beyond.