Harmonic Field Based Volume Model Construction from Triangle Soup

Surface triangle meshes and volume data are two commonly used representations of digital geometry. Converting from triangle meshes to volume data is challenging, since triangle meshes often contain defects such as small holes, internal structures, or self-intersections. In the extreme case, we may be simply presented with a set of arbitrarily connected triangles, a triangle soup. This paper presents a novel method to generate volume data represented as an octree from a general 3D triangle soup. Our motivati...