Directional Field Synthesis, Design, and Processing
Amir Vaxman
Utrecht University
AG4 Talk
Amir Vaxman is an assistant professor in the division Virtual Worlds at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He was a postdoctoral fellow at TU Vienna, working under Helmut Pottmann in the Geometric Modeling and Industrial Geometry group. He received his PhD from the Technion-IIT under the supervision of Gill Barequet. His research focuses on vector-field design and architectural geometry, with an emphasis on polyhedral meshes.
Directional fields on discrete surfaces and in volumes are key components of geometry processing. Many applications make use of such fields, among which are remeshing, surface parametrization (texture mapping), texture synthesis, fluid simulation, and many more. I will present the challenges and the limitations in the design and the analysis of such fields, and focus on novel ways to compute them.