Surface reconstruction has become an important research topic in part due to the appearance of 3D range scanners on the market. These scanners are capable of acquiring unstructured 3D point datasets from the surface of a given physical object. Digital scans allow for high-quality surface reconstructions, but this requires a particular care in recovering sharp features such as ridges, corners, spikes, etc. Surface reconstruction has many applications in science and engineering, in particular, geometric modelling, computer graphics, virtual reality, computer animation, computer vision, computer-assisted surgery, and reverse engineering.
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(2009). Implicit Surface Fitting. In: Gomes, A.J.P., Voiculescu, I., Jorge, J., Wyvill, B., Galbraith, C. (eds) Implicit Curves and Surfaces: Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithms. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-406-5_8
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