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Hierarchical spatial decompositions play a fundamental role in many disparate areas of scientific and mathematical computing since they enable adaptive sampling of large problem domains. Although the use of quadtrees, octrees, and their higher dimensional analogues is ubiquitous, these structures generate meshes with cracks, which can lead to discontinuities in functions defined on their domain. In this paper, we propose a dimension-independent triangulation algorithm based on regular simplex bisection to locally decompose adaptive hypercubic meshes into high quality simplicial complexes with guaranteed geometric and adaptivity constraints.
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Weiss, K., De Floriani, L. (2010). Bisection-Based Triangulations of Nested Hypercubic Meshes. In: Shontz, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 19th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15414-0_19
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