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SUBMITTED TO IEEE TVCG 1 Shape Deformation using a Skeleton to Drive Simplex Transformations a a* b a Han-Bing Yan , Shi-Min Hu , Ralph R Martin , and Yong-Liang Yang Abstract—This paper presents a skeleton-based method for vertices as done in previous skeleton-based methods. Secondly, deforming meshes (the skeleton need not be the medial axis). weights are not used in our method, avoiding the weight The significant difference from previous skeleton-based methods adjustment issue completely; nevertheless our approach gives is that the latter use the skeleton to control movement of vertices whereas we use it to control the simplices defining the model. By high quality results. doing so, errors that occur near joints in other methods can be Our approach can be applied to both 2D and 3D triangle spread over the whole mesh, via an optimization process, resulting meshes. The inputs to our method are the initial mesh, the in smooth transitions near joints of the skeleton. By controlling initial skeleton, and the deformed skeleton; the skeleton is simplices, our method has the additional advantage that no here considered to be a set of straight line segments connected vertex weights need be defined on the bones, which is a tedious together at joints. The output is the deformed mesh. In 2D, requirement in previous skeleton-based methods. Furthermore, by incorporatin