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Three-dimension reconstruction from serial sections has been used in the last decade to obtain information concerning three-dimensional microstructural geometry. One of the crucial steps of three-dimension reconstruction is getting compact and fairing grain contours. Based on the achievement of closed raw contours of ceramic composite grains by using wavelet and level set, an adaptive method is adopted for the polygonal approximation of the digitized raw contours. Instead of setting a fixed length of support region in advance, the novel method computes the suitable length of support region for each point to find the best estimated curvature. The dominant points are identified as the points with local maximum estimated curvatures. Periodic closed B-spline approximation is used to find the most compact B-spline grain boundary contours within the given tolerance. A flexible distance selection approach is adopted to obtain the common knot vector of serial contours consisting of less knots that contain enough degrees of freedom to guarantee the existence of a B-spline curve interpolating each contour. Finally, a B-spline surface interpolating the serial contours is generated via B-spline surface skinning.
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Supported by the National Programs for High Technology Research and Development of China (Grant No. 2002AA332100), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50672090)
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Zhao, X., Yin, Y. & Yang, B. Dominant point detecting based non-uniform B-spline approximation for grain contour. SCI CHINA SER E 50, 90–96 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-007-0004-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-007-0004-6