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With advances in discrete differential geometry, it is now nearly routine to compute curvature on meshed surfaces. Here are two of many possible color-coded examples.

Rusinkiewicz, Szymon. "Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on triangle meshes." In Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2004. 3DPVT 2004., pp. 486-493. IEEE, 2004. Fig. 4 (detail). DOI.

Gatzke, Timothy, Cindy Grimm, Michael Garland, and Steve Zelinka. "Curvature maps for local shape comparison." In International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2005 (SMI'05), pp. 244-253. IEEE, 2005. DOI.

With advances in discrete differential geometry, it is now nearly routine to compute curvature on meshed surfaces. Here are two of many possible color-coded examples.

Rusinkiewicz, Szymon. "Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on triangle meshes." In Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2004. 3DPVT 2004., pp. 486-493. IEEE, 2004. Fig. 4 (detail). DOI.

Gatzke, Timothy, Cindy Grimm, Michael Garland, and Steve Zelinka. "Curvature maps for local shape comparison." In International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2005 (SMI'05), pp. 244-253. IEEE, 2005. DOI.

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With advances in discrete differential geometry, it is now nearly routine to compute curvature on meshed surfaces. Here are two of many possible color-coded examples.

Rusinkiewicz, Szymon. "Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on triangle meshes." In Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2004. 3DPVT 2004., pp. 486-493. IEEE, 2004. Fig. 4 (detail). DOI: 10.1109/TDPVT.2004.1335277.

Gatzke, Timothy, Cindy Grimm, Michael Garland, and Steve Zelinka. "Curvature maps for local shape comparison." In International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2005 (SMI'05), pp. 244-253. IEEE, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SMI.2005.13.

With advances in discrete differential geometry, it is now nearly routine to compute curvature on meshed surfaces. Here are two of many possible color-coded examples.

Rusinkiewicz, Szymon. "Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on triangle meshes." In Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2004. 3DPVT 2004., pp. 486-493. IEEE, 2004. Fig. 4 (detail). DOI.

Gatzke, Timothy, Cindy Grimm, Michael Garland, and Steve Zelinka. "Curvature maps for local shape comparison." In International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2005 (SMI'05), pp. 244-253. IEEE, 2005. DOI.

With advances in discrete differential geometry, it is now nearly routine to compute curvature on meshed surfaces. Here is just one of many possible color-coded examples.

Rusinkiewicz, Szymon. "Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on triangle meshes." In Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2004. 3DPVT 2004., pp. 486-493. IEEE, 2004. Fig. 4 (detail).

With advances in discrete differential geometry, it is now nearly routine to compute curvature on meshed surfaces. Here are two of many possible color-coded examples.

Rusinkiewicz, Szymon. "Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on triangle meshes." In Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2004. 3DPVT 2004., pp. 486-493. IEEE, 2004. Fig. 4 (detail). DOI: 10.1109/TDPVT.2004.1335277.

Gatzke, Timothy, Cindy Grimm, Michael Garland, and Steve Zelinka. "Curvature maps for local shape comparison." In International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2005 (SMI'05), pp. 244-253. IEEE, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SMI.2005.13.