Section: Other Grants and Activities

European initiatives

Goodshape project

Participants : Bruno Lévy, Yang Liu, Lin Lu, Vincent Nivoliers, Nicolas Ray, Feng Sun, Nicolas Saugnier.

Project GoodShape (Numerical Geometric Abstraction: from bits to equations), funded by the European Research Council, involves several fundamental aspects of 3D modelling and computer graphics. GOODSHAPE is taking a new approach to the classic, essential problem of sampling, or the digital representation of objects in a computer. This new approach proposes to simultaneously consider the problem of approximating the solution of a partial differential equation and the optimal sampling problem. The proposed approach, based on the theory of numerical optimization, is likely to lead to new algorithms, more efficient than existing methods. Possible applications are envisioned in inverse engineering and oil exploration.