A Novel Algorithm for Periodic Conformal Flattening of Genus-one and Multiply Connected Genus-zero Surfaces

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel method for genus-one and multiply connected genus-zero surfaces, namely periodic conformal flattening.The primary advantage of this method is its independence from the cut paths and consistency preservation of the cut seams, which introduce no additional conformal distortion near the cut seams.We utilize the conformal energy minimization technique to compute the desired conformal map, which is characterised as an easy-solved quadratic functional minimization problem.The numerical experiments illustrate that our proposed algorithms DPCF and SPCF is of high accuracy and a 4-5 times improvement in terms of efficiency compared with state-of-the-art algorithms.

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