a Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
b Program in Applied and Comput. Math., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
c Department of Computer Science, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Abstract:
This paper addresses the problem of decomposing a complex polyhedral surface into a small number of “convex” patches (i.e., boundary parts of convex polyhedra). The corresponding optimization problem is shown to be NP-complete and an experimental search for good heuristics is undertaken.