Isometry‐Aware Preconditioning for Mesh Parameterization

This paper presents a new preconditioning technique for large‐scale geometric optimization problems, inspired by applications in mesh parameterization. Our positive (semi‐)definite preconditioner acts on the gradients of optimization problems whose variables are positions of the vertices of a triangle mesh in ℝ2 or of a tetrahedral mesh in ℝ3, converting localized distortion gradients into the velocity of a globally near‐rigid motion via a linear solve. We pose our preconditioning tool in terms of the Killing energy of a deformation field and provide new efficient formulas for constructing Killing operators on triangle and tetrahedral meshes. We demonstrate that our method is competitive with state‐of‐the‐art algorithms for locally injective parameterization using a variety of optimization objectives and show applications to two‐ and three‐dimensional mesh deformation.

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