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A method to triangulate the medial axis [1] is modified. In the new method the coping surfaces of a thin-wall object are used for insidedness but ignored for footpoints, yielding the mid-surface, not the medial axis. Three distinct contour-followers are employed. After a brief, manual tagging of the coping surfaces, the method is automatic. It computes a triangulation to arbitrary precision and appears robust for complex, thin-wall objects.
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Bloomenthal, J. (2014). Triangulation of Implicitly Defined Mid-Surfaces. In: Sarrate, J., Staten, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 22nd International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02335-9_15
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