Virtual Cutting Operation Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method

摘要

We propose an adaptive mesh refinement method for the problems of cutting 3D surface meshes. In the proposed method, the mesh elements newly arising in a cutting path are always with possible minimum sizes, despite the fact that the element number (the number of mesh vertexes) of the model is small in comparing to the conventional methods using non-adaptive meshes. We show the applications of the proposed method in medical surgical training.