Research Overview

BubbleMesh®   Finite Element Mesh Smoothing   Adaptive Remeshing  Geometric Modeling  Geometric Data Conversion  Free-Form Surface Modeling  Product Design   Computer Graphics   Manufacturing Planning

Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery

Research Sponsors

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BubbleMesh® (Physically Based FEM Mesh Generation)

Bubble Mesh (1D, 2D, and 3D)

Shimada, K., "Physically-Based Mesh Generation: Automated Triangulation of Surfaces and Volumes via Bubble Packing," Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.

Shimada, K. and D. Gossard, "Bubble Mesh: Automated Triangular Meshing of Non-Manifold Geometry by Sphere Packing," ACM Third Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pp. 409-19, 1995. [PDF, 1,007KB]

Shimada, K. and D. Gossard, “Automatic Triangular Mesh Generation of Trimmed Parametric Surfaces for Finite Element Analysis,” Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol.15, No.3, pp.199-222, 1998. [Zipped PS, 540KB]

Anisotropic Tetrahedral Meshing

(with S. Yamakawa)

Yamakawa, S. and K. Shimada, "High Quality Anisotropic Tetrahedral Mesh Generation via Packing Ellipsoidal Bubbles," The 9th International Meshing Roundtable, pp.263-73, 2000. [PDF, 1,054KB]

HEXHOOP: Hex-Dominant to All-Hex Mesh Conversion Template

(with S. Yamakawa)

Yamakawa, S. and K. Shimada, "HEXHOOP: Modular Templates for Converting a Hex-Dominant Mesh to an ALL-Hex Mesh," The 10th International Meshing Roundtable, 2001. [PDF, 991KB]

Triangulation of Parametric Surfaces

(with D. Gossard)

Anisotropic Triangulation

(with A. Yamada and T. Itoh)

Triangular Meshing of Wireframe

(with A. Yamada and T. Itoh)
Yamada, A., K. Shimada, and T. Itoh, “Meshing Curved Wire-Frame Models via Energy-Minimization and Ellipse Packing,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol.46, Issue 8, pp. 1221-1236, 1999.
[Zipped PS, 293KB]

Quadrilateral Meshing with Directionality Control by Packing Square Cells

(with J-H Liao and T. Itoh)

Anisotropic Quadrilateral Meshing via Packing Rectangular Cells

(with N. Viswanath and T. Itoh)

Quad-Layer: Layered Quadrilateral Meshing of Narrow Two-Dimensional Domain  for Large Deformation Analysis

(with S. Yamakawa and H.-K. Lee)

Yamakawa, S. and K. Shimada, "Quad-Layer: Layered Quadrilateral Meshing of Narrow Two-Dimensional Domain via Bubble Packing and Chordal Axis Transformation," ASME DAC, 2001. [PDF, 872KB]

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Finite Element Mesh Smoothing

Two-Dimensional Angle Smoothing

(with T. Zhou)

Zhou, T. and K. Shimada, "An Angle-Based Approach to Two-dimensional Mesh Smoothing," The 9th International Meshing Roundtable, pp.373-84, 2000. [PDF, 512KB]

Improving the Quality of Tet Meshes via Angle Smoothing and Edge Swapping

(with T. Zhou and A. Dheeravongkit)

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Adaptive Remeshing

Solution Adaptive Quadrilateral Remeshing

(with N. Viswanath and T. Itoh)

Sheet Metal Forming Simulation

(with N. Mori, T. Kondo, T. Itoh, K. Kase, and A. Makinouchi)

Shimada, K., N. Mori, T. Kondo, T. Itoh, K. Kase, A. Makinouchi, "Automated Mesh Generation for Finite Element Analysis of Sheet Metal Forming," International Journal of Vehicle Design, Vo. 21, Nos. 2/3, 1999.

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Geometric Modeling and Product Design

Automatic Shape Generation for Mechanical Components

(with D. Gossard)

Shortest Path Finder

(with M. Kageura)

3D Layouting and Packaging

(with J. Cagan, C. Aladahalli, and S. Yin)

Cagan, J., K. Shimada, and S. Yin, “A Survey of Computational Approaches to Three-Dimensional Layout Problems,” Computer-Aided Design, accepted 2001. [PDF, 126KB]

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Geometric Data Conversion

WitS: Wireframe to Surface/Solid Conversion

(with K. Inoue and K. Chilaka)

Face Clustering for Mesh Generation

(with K. Inoue, T. Itoh, A. Yamada, and T. Furuhata)

Inoue, K., T. Itoh, A. Yamada, T. Furuhata, K. Shimada, "Clustering a Large Number of Faces for Two-Dimensional Mesh Generation," Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 33, No 3., pp. 251- 61, 2001. [PDF, 1,737KB]

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Free-Form Surface Modeling

Fair Surface Generation with Spring Models

(with A. Yamada, T. Furuhata, and K.-H. Hou)

Yamada, A., K. Shimada, T. Furuhata, and K.-H. Hou, "A Discrete Spring Model to Generate Fair Curves and Surfaces," Proceedings of Pacific Graphics '99, 1999. [PDF, 1,558KB]

Automated Generation of Fillet Surfaces

(with K.-H. Hou and S. Sabanai)

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Computer Graphics

Radiosity Methods

(with T. Itoh, and A. Doi)

Itoh, T., K. Shimada, and A. Doi, "Discontinuity Meshing for Radiosity," Journal of the Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.36, No.11, pp. 2632-41, 1995. (in Japanese)

Shimada, K., T. Itoh, and A. Doi, "Automatic Triangular Meshing for Fast and Accurate Radiosity Method," NICOGRAPH '95, pp. 44-55, 1994. (in Japanese)

Pavement Texture Generation

(with K. Miyata and T. Itoh)

Organic Texture Generation with Controlled Anisotropy and Directionality

(with K. Miyata and T. Itoh)
Miyata, K., T. Itoh, and K. Shimada, "Organic Textures with Controlled Anisotropy and Directionality," SIGGRAPH 2001 Technical Sketch, 2001. [PDF, 169KB]

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Manufacturing Planning

Optimal Stacking Sheet Metal Parts

(with V. Ayyadevara, D. Bourne and R. Sturges)

Finding the Farthest Point from Object Boundary and its Application to Manufacturing Cost Estimation

(with M. Kageura)

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Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery

Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery

(with B. Caes, T. Furuhata, M. Gunay, N. Krause, B. Mendicino, G. Neplotnik, A. Schwarzhans T. Kanade, and L. Weiss)

3D Shape Reconstruction from X-Ray Images

(with M. Gunay)

Osteotomy Configuration Optimizer

(with T. Furuhata)

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Human Modeling, Simulation, and Identification

Human Face Recognition

(with S. Yamakawa, C. DeFrank and A. Eraslan)

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Research Sponsors

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