Shape transformation for polyhedral objects

Abstract

Techniques that transform one two-dimensionaf image into another have gained widespread use m recent yeara. Extending these techniques to transform pairs of 3D objects, as opposed to 2D images of the objects, providea several advsntagea, including the ability to snimate the objects independently of the transformation. This paper presents an algorithm for computing such transformations. The algorithm merges the topological structures of a pair of 3D polyhedral models into a common vertex/edgeJface network. This allows trsmsformations from one object to the other to be easily computed by interpolating between corresponding v@ex positions.