David Bommes

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

David Bommes is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computational Mechanics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, David Bommes has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 36 papers in Computational Mechanics and 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in David Bommes's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (41 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (31 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (24 papers). David Bommes is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (41 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (31 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (24 papers). David Bommes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. David Bommes's co-authors include Leif Kobbelt, Henrik Zimmer, Marcel Campen, Amir Vaxman, Justin Solomon, Nico Pietroni, Denis Zorin, Enrico Puppo, Claudio Silva and Marco Tarini and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.

In The Last Decade

David Bommes

46 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Mixed-integer quadrangulation 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2013 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mixed-integer quadrangulation
    2009 372 citations David Bommes, Henrik Zimmer et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
  2. Quad‐Mesh Generation and Processing: A Survey
    2013 238 citations David Bommes, Bruno Lévy et al. Computer Graphics Forum profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Bommes Germany 21 1.4k 1.4k 302 112 94 47 1.8k
Marcel Campen Germany 23 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 289 1.0× 71 0.6× 95 1.0× 59 1.5k
Jérôme Maillot France 4 1.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 534 1.8× 103 0.9× 95 1.0× 6 1.5k
Amir Vaxman Netherlands 16 502 0.4× 551 0.4× 189 0.6× 135 1.2× 47 0.5× 41 969
Sylvain Petitjean France 14 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 703 2.3× 86 0.8× 96 1.0× 30 1.7k
Stéfanie Hahmann France 15 424 0.3× 573 0.4× 216 0.7× 108 1.0× 113 1.2× 60 807
Zhonggui Chen China 15 393 0.3× 436 0.3× 270 0.9× 123 1.1× 64 0.7× 63 886
Ronald N. Perry United States 7 572 0.4× 511 0.4× 372 1.2× 75 0.7× 45 0.5× 15 856
Andrew Nealen Germany 16 1.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.1× 827 2.7× 92 0.8× 66 0.7× 27 2.1k
Mark Carlson United States 12 729 0.5× 792 0.6× 311 1.0× 71 0.6× 30 0.3× 25 1.2k
Yonghao Yue Japan 17 322 0.2× 394 0.3× 270 0.9× 81 0.7× 44 0.5× 35 797

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Bommes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Bommes

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Campen, Marcel, et al.. (2024). A Progressive Embedding Approach to Bijective Tetrahedral Maps driven by Cluster Mesh Topology. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(6). 1–14.
2.
Bommes, David, et al.. (2023). Quad Mesh Quantization Without a T‐Mesh. Computer Graphics Forum. 43(1). 2 indexed citations
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Bommes, David, et al.. (2023). Min-Deviation-Flow in Bi-directed Graphs for T-Mesh Quantization. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–25. 2 indexed citations
4.
Wellmann, Florian, et al.. (2022). Subdivide and Conquer: Adapting Non-Manifold Subdivision Surfaces to Surface-Based Representation and Reconstruction of Complex Geological Structures. Mathematical Geosciences. 55(1). 81–111. 4 indexed citations
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Pietroni, Nico, Marcel Campen, Alla Sheffer, et al.. (2022). A Course on Hex-Mesh Generation and Processing. UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 1–78. 1 indexed citations
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Bommes, David, et al.. (2022). TinyAD: Automatic Differentiation in Geometry Processing Made Simple. Computer Graphics Forum. 41(5). 113–124. 12 indexed citations
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Henrotte, François, et al.. (2022). Robust Topological Construction of All-hexahedral Boundary Layer Meshes. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. 49(1). 1–32. 4 indexed citations
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Alliez, Pierre, et al.. (2019). Selective Padding for Polycube‐Based Hexahedral Meshing. Computer Graphics Forum. 38(1). 580–591. 19 indexed citations
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Bommes, David, John A. Evans, & Ligang Liu. (2018). Special Issue on the 12th International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2018). Computer Aided Geometric Design. 62. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Solomon, Justin, Amir Vaxman, & David Bommes. (2017). Boundary Element Octahedral Fields in Volumes. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 36(4). 1–1. 57 indexed citations
11.
Vaxman, Amir, Marcel Campen, Olga Diamanti, et al.. (2016). Directional field synthesis, design, and processing. 1–30. 31 indexed citations
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Vaxman, Amir, Marcel Campen, Olga Diamanti, et al.. (2016). Directional Field Synthesis, Design, and Processing. Computer Graphics Forum. 35(2). 545–572. 105 indexed citations
13.
Yan, Dong‐Ming, et al.. (2016). Error-Bounded and Feature Preserving Surface Remeshing with Minimal Angle Improvement. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 23(12). 2560–2573. 49 indexed citations
14.
Bommes, David, et al.. (2016). HexEx. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 35(4). 1–11. 43 indexed citations
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Campen, Marcel, David Bommes, & Leif Kobbelt. (2015). Quantized global parametrization. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 34(6). 1–12. 86 indexed citations
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Campen, Marcel, et al.. (2014). Level-of-detail quad meshing. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33(6). 1–11. 33 indexed citations
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Bommes, David, Bruno Lévy, Nico Pietroni, et al.. (2013). Quad‐Mesh Generation and Processing: A Survey. Computer Graphics Forum. 32(6). 51–76. 238 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zimmer, Henrik, Marcel Campen, David Bommes, & Leif Kobbelt. (2012). Rationalization of Triangle‐Based Point‐Folding Structures. Computer Graphics Forum. 31(2pt3). 611–620. 21 indexed citations
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Bommes, David, et al.. (2011). Global Structure Optimization of Quadrilateral Meshes. Computer Graphics Forum. 30(2). 375–384. 88 indexed citations
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Bommes, David & Leif Kobbelt. (2007). Accurate Computation of Geodesic Distance Fields for Polygonal Curves on Triangle Meshes. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 151–160. 33 indexed citations

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