Photo showing Philipp Slusallek as he receives the EG Medal from Pat Hanrahan, Markus Gross, and Hans-Peter Seidel

Philipp Slusallek receives the EG Medal from Pat Hanrahan, Markus Gross, and Hans-Peter Seidel

Philipp Slusallek (DFKI, 2nd from left) receives the EG Medal from Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University, left), Markus Gross (ETH Zürich, 2nd from right), and Hans-Peter Seidel (MPI Informatics, right)

Winner of the Computer Graphics Forum 2024 Cover Image Contest

This image shows the inside of the teaser figure 'fertility' from Polygon Laplacian Made Robust. It visualizes the condition numbers of individual polygon stiffness matrices. The mesh transitions from the input mesh to our result from left to right. The original mesh features disfigured polygons with alarming (yellow) or terrible (magenta) condition numbers. With our tailored smoothing algorithm, polygons become very regular and, combined with our improved polygon Laplacian, result in better condition numbers (blue) and improved robustness in computational simulation. Blender was used to stylize the geometry and render the image.