Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Related Research
  • Generation of Triangular Meshes
  • Generation of Quadrilateral Meshes
  • Indirect Discretization of 3D Surfaces
  • Direct Discretization of 3D Surfaces
  • Discretization of Discrete 3D Surfaces
  • Mesh Optimization
• Indirect Triangulation of 3D Surfaces
  • Surface Representation
  • Surface Metric Tensor
  • Parametric Space Meshing
  • Singularities
  • Smoothing
  • Control Space
  • Examples
• Direct Triangulation of 3D Surfaces
  • Mesh Density Control
  • Octree Control Space
  • Projection
  • Real Space Meshing
  • Computational Complexity
  • Examples
• Triangulation of Discrete 3D Surfaces
  • Surface Representation
  • Reconstruction of Limit Surface
  • Discrete Surface Meshing
  • Surface Projection
  • Examples
• Generation of Quad-dominant Meshes
  • Mixed Mesh Generation
  • Quadrilateral Generation
  • Mesh Optimization
  • Mesh Refinement
  • Examples
• Summary
  • Future Developments
• Bibliography
• Figures
• Tables