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Danish or Doughnut
Joshua Podolak GS
Department of Computer Science
This series of images is a result of a project to automatically fill holes in polygonal meshes. While in simple cases it suffices to create a patch by triangulating the boundary of a hole, in cases where the topology of the final object is uncertain a more complex method is needed. In the figure shown, using our �Atomic Volumes� method, the outer half of the torus can be filled in two topologically different ways. The viewers can decide if they see a Danish or a doughnut.