Mesh Jaggedness

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on September 20, 2012 at 11:58am

You got some mesh edges perpendicular to what should be a sharp edge in the geometry.

Either you model it so that all mesh edges over the sharp edge are parallel it or you have to increase the mesh resolution to an acceptable level. Smoothing the mesh will reduce the ridges but will also reduce the sharpness of these edges.

If the original shape is a sphere you could try using the mesh of a geodesic dome, where all the faces and angles are of similar size.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on September 20, 2012 at 12:29pm

Nice idea with the geodesic dome. Will give it a try. Thanks

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on September 20, 2012 at 12:04pm

 Splitting your mesh along your curves would help sharpen the valleys. (see attached def)

The ridges are a bit trickier though, as you don't have their location explicitly ( I guess they're probably along the medial axis of the curves on the sphere )

Actually there are possible extensions of the type of remeshing I've just been working on to sharp feature preservation. It will be a while before this is implemented and available though, so maybe not so useful to you in the short term.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on September 20, 2012 at 12:33pm

Thanks Daniel, I saw your remesh which I think is a very important part in modeling. This issue is something I have been wondering for awhile with curves. But all solutions I think of have similar jagged results.