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Geodesic Polar Coordinates (GPCs) on a smooth surface S  are local surface coordinates that relates a surface point to a planar parameter point by the length and direction of a corresponding geodesic curve onS. They are intrinsic to the surface and represent a natural local parameterization with useful properties. We present a simple and efficient algorithm to approximate GPCs on both triangle and general polygonal meshes. Our approach, named DGPC, is based on extending an existing algorithm for computing geodesic distance. We compare our approach with previous methods, both with respect to efficiency, accuracy and visual qualities when used for local mesh texturing. As a further application we show how the resulting coordinates can be used for vector space methods like local remeshing at interactive frame‐rates even for large meshes.

Abstract. We present a simple and efficient method for computing zeros of spline functions. The method exploits the close relationship between a spline and its control polygon and is based on repeated knot insertion. Like Newton's method it is quadratically convergent, but the new method overcomes the principal problem with Newton's method in that it always converges and no starting value needs to be supplied by the user.