Feature sensitive remeshing

Remeshing artifacts are a fundamental problem when converting a given geome try into a triangle mesh. We propose a new remeshing technique that is sens itive to features. First, the resolution of the mesh is iteratively adapted by a global restructuring process which additionally optimizes the connect ivity. Then a particle system approach evenly distributes the vertices acro ss the original geometry. To exactly find the features we extend this relax ation procedure by an effective mechanism to attract the vertices to featur e edges. The attracting force is imposed by means of a hierarchical curvatu re field and does not require any thresholding parameters to classify the f eatures.