Helmut Pottmann

Orcid: 0000-0002-3195-9316

Affiliations:
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • TU Wien, Vienna, Austria (former)


According to our database1, Helmut Pottmann authored at least 164 papers between 1988 and 2025.

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2025
Computational design of asymptotic geodesic hybrid gridshells via propagation algorithms.
Comput. Aided Des., 2025

2024
Quad mesh mechanisms.
ACM Trans. Graph., December, 2024

Designing triangle meshes with controlled roughness.
ACM Trans. Graph., December, 2024

Approximation by Meshes with Spherical Faces.
ACM Trans. Graph., December, 2024

Flexible Kokotsakis Meshes with Skew Faces: Generalization of the Orthodiagonal Involutive Type.
Comput. Aided Des., March, 2024

2023
Rectifying Strip Patterns.
ACM Trans. Graph., December, 2023

Meshes with Spherical Faces.
ACM Trans. Graph., December, 2023

Developable Quad Meshes and Contact Element Nets.
ACM Trans. Graph., December, 2023

Deployable strip structures.
ACM Trans. Graph., August, 2023

Planar Panels and Planar Supporting Beams in Architectural Structures.
ACM Trans. Graph., April, 2023

Architectural Structures from Quad Meshes with Planar Parameter Lines.
Comput. Aided Des., March, 2023

2022
Developable Quad Meshes.
CoRR, 2022

UrbanFlow: Designing Comfortable Outdoor Areas.
CoRR, 2022

Characteristic parameterizations of surfaces with a constant ratio of principal curvatures.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2022

Designing Asymptotic Geodesic Hybrid Gridshells.
Comput. Aided Des., 2022

Shape-morphing mechanical metamaterials.
Comput. Aided Des., 2022

2021
Computational design of weingarten surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2021

Using isometries for computational design and fabrication.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2021

Geometry and tool motion planning for curvature adapted CNC machining.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2021

2020
Principal symmetric meshes.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2020

Quad-mesh based isometric mappings and developable surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2020

Freeform quad-based kirigami.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2020

Computational design of cold bent glass façades.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2020

Discretizations of Surfaces with Constant Ratio of Principal Curvatures.
Discret. Comput. Geom., 2020

Multi-Nets. Classification of Discrete and Smooth Surfaces with Characteristic Properties on Arbitrary Parameter Rectangles.
Discret. Comput. Geom., 2020

Characterizing envelopes of moving rotational cones and applications in CNC machining.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2020

2019
Discrete geodesic parallel coordinates.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2019

Checkerboard patterns with black rectangles.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2019

Visual smoothness of polyhedral surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2019

Curve-pleated structures.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2019

Optimizing B-spline surfaces for developability and paneling architectural freeform surfaces.
Comput. Aided Des., 2019

2018
Designing patterns using triangle-quad hybrid meshes.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2018

Curved support structures and meshes with spherical vertex stars.
Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, 2018

Design and construction of curved support structures with repetitive parameters.
Proceedings of the AAG 2018, 2018

Aligning principal stress and curvature directions.
Proceedings of the AAG 2018, 2018

2017
Material-minimizing forms and structures.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2017

Automatic fitting of conical envelopes to free-form surfaces for flank CNC machining.
Comput. Aided Des., 2017

Technical Perspective: Linking form, function, and fabrication.
Commun. ACM, 2017

Freeform Architecture and Discrete Differential Geometry.
Proceedings of the Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, 2017

2016
Interactive Design of Developable Surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2016

Towards efficient 5-axis flank CNC machining of free-form surfaces via fitting envelopes of surfaces of revolution.
Comput. Aided Des., 2016

2015
Polyhedral patterns.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2015

Architectural geometry.
Comput. Graph., 2015

Cell packing structures.
Comput. Aided Des., 2015

Precise gouging-free tool orientations for 5-axis CNC machining.
Comput. Aided Des., 2015

Steering of form - New integrative approaches to architectural design and modeling.
Comput. Aided Des., 2015

Freeform honeycomb structures and lobel frames.
Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, 2015

2014
Form-finding with polyhedral meshes made simple.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2014

Freeform Honeycomb Structures.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2014

Detection and reconstruction of freeform sweeps.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2014

Smooth surfaces from rational bilinear patches.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2014

Interactive Modeling of Architectural Freeform Structures: Combining Geometry with Fabrication and Statics.
Proceedings of the Advances in Architectural Geometry, 2014

2013
Discrete Line Congruences for Shading and Lighting.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2013

Circular Arc Snakes and Kinematic Surface Generation.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2013

Smooth surfaces from bilinear patches: Discrete affine minimal surfaces.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2013

2012
Design of self-supporting surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2012

Darboux cyclides and webs from circles.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2012

Intuitive Design Exploration of Constrained Meshes.
Proceedings of the Advances in Architectural Geometry, 2012

Ruled Free Forms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Architectural Geometry, 2012

2011
Shape space exploration of constrained meshes.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2011

Circular arc structures.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2011

Functional webs for freeform architecture.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2011

2010
Geodesic patterns.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2010

Paneling architectural freeform surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2010

Edge offset meshes in Laguerre geometry.
Adv. Comput. Math., 2010

Discrete geometric structures for architecture.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2010

Tiling Freeform Shapes With Straight Panels: Algorithmic Methods.
Proceedings of the Advances in Architectural Geometry, 2010

Case Studies in Cost-Optimized Paneling of Architectural Freeform Surfaces.
Proceedings of the Advances in Architectural Geometry, 2010

Architekturgeometrie.
Springer, ISBN: 978-3-211-99765-9, 2010

2009
Packing circles and spheres on surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2009

Integral invariants for robust geometry processing.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2009

Generalized penetration depth computation based on kinematical geometry.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2009

Laguerre minimal surfaces, isotropic geometry and linear elasticity.
Adv. Comput. Math., 2009

2008
Freeform surfaces from single curved panels.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2008

Discovering structural regularity in 3D geometry.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2008

Curved folding.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2008

The focal geometry of circular and conical meshes.
Adv. Comput. Math., 2008

Geometry of architectural freeform structures.
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, 2008

2007
Fair webs.
Vis. Comput., 2007

Robust Feature Classification and Editing.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2007

Geometry of multi-layer freeform structures for architecture.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2007

Geometric modeling in shape space.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2007

Variational and PDE level set methods.
Computing, 2007

Principal curvatures from the integral invariant viewpoint.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2007

Dynamic geometry registration.
Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Barcelona, 2007

Geometric Computing in Shape Space.
Proceedings of the 15th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2007

Voronoi Diagrams for Oriented Spheres.
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering, 2007

Discrete Surfaces in Isotropic Geometry.
Proceedings of the Mathematics of Surfaces XII, 2007

2006
Fitting B-spline curves to point clouds by curvature-based squared distance minimization.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2006

Intrinsic subdivision with smooth limits for graphics and animation.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2006

Geometric modeling with conical meshes and developable surfaces.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2006

Reassembling fractured objects by geometric matching.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2006

Geometry and Convergence Analysis of Algorithms for Registration of 3D Shapes.
Int. J. Comput. Vis., 2006

Constrained 3D shape reconstruction using a combination of surface fitting and registration.
Comput. Aided Des., 2006

Surface fitting based on a feature sensitive parametrization.
Comput. Aided Des., 2006

Robust principal curvatures on multiple scales.
Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Cagliari, 2006

2005
A variational approach to spline curves on surfaces.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2005

Industrial geometry: recent advances and applications in CAD.
Comput. Aided Des., 2005

Special section on geometric modeling and processing.
Comput. Aided Des., 2005

Fair curve networks in nonlinear geometries.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2005

Robust Global Registration.
Proceedings of the Third Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2005

3D Shape Recognition and Reconstruction Based on Line Element Geometry.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), 2005

2004
From curve design algorithms to the design of rigid body motions.
Vis. Comput., 2004

Energy-minimizing splines in manifolds.
ACM Trans. Graph., 2004

Registration without ICP.
Comput. Vis. Image Underst., 2004

Special issue on geometric modeling and processing.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2004

Editorial to: Industrial Geometry.
Comput. Aided Des., 2004

Registration of Point Cloud Data from a Geometric Optimization Perspective.
Proceedings of the Second Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2004

The Isophotic Metric and Its Application to Feature Sensitive Morphology on Surfaces.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision, 2004

Line Geometry for 3D Shape Understanding and Reconstruction.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision, 2004

2003
Computing the Minkowski sum of ruled surfaces.
Graph. Model., 2003

A concept for parametric surface fitting which avoids the parametrization problem.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2003

Geometric design of motions constrained by a contacting surface pair.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2003

Locally optimal cutting positions for 5-axis sculptured surface machining.
Comput. Aided Des., 2003

Segmentation and Modeling of Approximately Rotationally Symmetric Objects in 3D Ultrasound.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM 2003), 2003

2002
Exact Minkowski Products of N Complex Disks.
Reliab. Comput., 2002

Optimal slicing of free-form surfaces.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2002

Geometry of the Squared Distance Function to Curves and Surfaces.
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop "Visualization and Mathematics", 2002

Approximation with Active B-Spline Curves and Surfaces.
Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2002

Fast model based segmentation of ultrasound data using an active image.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2002

Geometries for CAGD.
Proceedings of the Handbook of Computer Aided Geometric Design, 2002

2001
Self-Intersections of Offset Curves and Surfaces.
Int. J. Shape Model., 2001

2000
Piecewise optimal triangulation for the approximation of scattered data in the plane.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 2000

Error propagation in geometric constructions.
Comput. Aided Des., 2000

On Approximation in Spaces of Geometric Objects.
Proceedings of the 9th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, 2000

On Optimal Tolerancing in Computer-Aided Design.
Proceedings of the Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000, 2000

1999
On Surface Approximation Using Developable Surfaces.
Graph. Model. Image Process., 1999

Approximation algorithms for developable surfaces.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1999

An introduction to line geometry with applications.
Comput. Aided Des., 1999

On the computational geometry of ruled surfaces.
Comput. Aided Des., 1999

Collision-free 3-axis milling and selection of cutting tools.
Comput. Aided Des., 1999

1998
Contributions to Motion Based Surface Design.
Int. J. Shape Model., 1998

Rotational and Helical Surface Approximation for Reverse Engineering.
Computing, 1998

Applications of Laguerre geometry in CAGD.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1998

A Laguerre geometric approach to rational offsets.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1998

Approximation of developable surfaces with cone spline surfaces.
Comput. Aided Des., 1998

Geometric Contribution to 3-axis Milling of Sculptured Surfaces.
Proceedings of the Machining Impossible Shapes, 1998

1997
General offset surfaces.
Neural Parallel Sci. Comput., 1997

Computing Rational Parametrizations of Canal Surfaces.
J. Symb. Comput., 1997

Rational blending surfaces between quadrics.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1997

Inflections of planar surface curves.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1997

1996
Rational Ruled Surfaces and Their Offsets.
CVGIP Graph. Model. Image Process., 1996

Pipe surfaces with rational spine curve are rational.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1996

1995
Fair Surface Reconstruction Using Quadratic Functionals.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 1995

Developable rational Bézier and B-spline surfaces.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1995

Rational curves and surfaces with rational offsets.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1995

Curve design with rational Pythagorean-hodograph curves.
Adv. Comput. Math., 1995

1994
Computing shortest paths on polyhedra: applications in geometric modeling and scientific visualization.
Int. J. Comput. Geom. Appl., 1994

Curvature analysis and visualization for functions defined on Euclidean spaces or surfaces.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1994

Helix splines as an example of affine Tchebycheffian splines.
Adv. Comput. Math., 1994

Polynomial and Rational Pythagorean-Hodograph Curves Reconciled.
Proceedings of the 6th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, 1994

Geometric Motion Design.
Proceedings of the Modelling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems [Dagstuhl Workshop, 1994

1993
The geometry of Tchebycheffian splines.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1993

1992
Interpolation on surfaces using minimum norm networks.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1992

Fat surfaces: a trivariate approach to triangle-based interpolation on surfaces.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1992

1991
Locally Controllable Conic Splines with Curvature Continuity.
ACM Trans. Graph., 1991

Visualizing functions on a surface.
Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds, 1991

1990
Modified multiquadric methods for scattered data interpolation over a sphere.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1990

Smooth curves under tension.
Comput. Aided Des., 1990

1989
Projectively invariant classes of geometric continuity for CAGD.
Comput. Aided Geom. Des., 1989

Visualizing Curvature Discontinuities of Free-Form Surfaces.
Proceedings of the 10th European Computer Graphics Conference and Exhibition, 1989

1988
Minisymposium Geometrische Verfahren der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung Spezielle Visualisierungstechniken.
Proceedings of the Visualisierungstechniken und Algorithmen, 1988

Eine Verfeinerung der Isophotenmethode zur Qualitätsanalyse von Freiformflächen.
Proceedings of the Visualisierungstechniken und Algorithmen, 1988

Interpolierende Kurven und Flächen mit geometrischer Stetigkeit höherer Ordnung.
Proceedings of the Austrographics '88, 1988


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