#### Authors

Barbieri Simone, Universitá degli studi di Cagliari

Meloni Pietro, Universitá degli studi di Cagliari

Usai Francesco, Universitá degli studi di Cagliari

Scateni Riccardo, Universitá degli studi di Cagliari

#### Abstract

Curve-skeletons are well known shape descriptors, able to encode topological and structural information of a shape. The range of applications in which they are used comprises, to name a few, computer animation, shape matching, modelling and remeshing. Different tools for automatically extracting the curve-skeleton for a given input mesh are currently available, as well as inverse skeletonization tools, where a user-defined skeleton is taken as input in order to build a mesh that reflects the encoded structure. Although their use is broad, an automatically extracted curve-skeleton is usually not well-suited for the next pipeline step in which they will be used. We present a tool for creating, editing and repairing curve-skeletons whose aim is to allow users to obtain, within minutes, curve-skeletons that are tailored for their specific task.

#### Paper

Best paper award at STAG 2015

#### Bibtex

@inproceedings {stag.20151299,
booktitle = {Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},
editor = {Andrea Giachetti and Silvia Biasotti and Marco Tarini},
title = {{Skeleton Lab: an Interactive Tool to Create, Edit, and Repair Curve-Skeletons}},
author = {Barbieri, Simone and Meloni, Pietro and Usai, Francesco and Scateni, Riccardo},
year = {2015},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-97-2},
DOI = {10.2312/stag.20151299}
}