What if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would return the signed distance to the closest ...

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 359, No. 12 (Dec., 2007), pp. 5725-5759 (35 pages) Let the space ℝⁿ be endowed with a Minkowski structure M (that is, M: ℝⁿ → [0, + ∞]) is the ...