Paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026

Valentin Z. Nigolian's research on Robust Deformation-based 3D Bijective Mapping through Differential Boundary Shape Matching has been accepted for publication at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026!

SGP26 in Bern has ended

All good things must come to an end—and so did the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2026. We had an absolute blast hosting it and thank all the organizers, helpers, submitters and attendees for a great week!

New SIGGRAPH'25 papers

The two papers HexHex: Highspeed Extraction of Hexahedral Meshes (Tobias Luc Kohler, Martin Heistermann, David Bommes) and Feature-Aligned Parametrization in Penner Coordinates (Ryan Capouellez, Rodrigo Singh, Martin Heistermann, David Bommes, Denis Zorin) were accepted for publication and are to be presented in SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference.

SGP26 will be hosted by the CGG in Bern

The Symposium on Geometry Processing 2026 is taking place at the University of Bern, and will be hosted by the CGG!

Valentin Nigolian Ph.D. defense

Our colleague Valentin Nigolian has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Robust Tetrahedral Maps — The Shrink-and-Expand Framework". Congratulations, Dr. Nigolian!

New SIGGRAPH Asia'24 paper

The paper A Progressive Embedding Approach to Bijective Tetrahedral Maps driven by Cluster Mesh Topology (Valentin Z. Nigolian, Marcel Campen, David Bommes) was accepted for publication and will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference.

Best paper award SGP'24

The paper Integer-Sheet-Pump Quantization for Hexahedral Meshing, co-authored by Prof. David Bommes, won the Best Paper Award (runner-up) at the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2024.

Honorable Mention at SIGGRAPH'23

One of our papers at this year's ACM SIGGRAPH, <a href="/publications/bimdf-quantization/">Min-Deviation-Flow in Bi-directed Graphs for T-Mesh Quantization</a>, was selected for an Honorable Mention in the <a href="https://blog.siggraph.org/2023/07/siggraph-2023-technical-papers-awards-best-papers-honorable-mentions-and-test-of-time.html/">Technical Papers Awards</a>.

Papers at SIGGRAPH 2023

We have three papers at this year's SIGGRAPH, don't miss our talks!

• Min-Deviation-Flow in Bi-directed Graphs for T-Mesh Quantization
• Expansion Cones: A Progressive Volumetric Mapping Framework
• Locally Meshable Frame Fields

Heng Liu Ph.D. defense

Our colleague Heng Liu has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Frame Fields for Hexahedral Mesh Generation". Congratulations, Dr. Liu!

SGP22: HexMe dataset and TinyAD library

The paper TinyAD: Automatic Differentiation in Geometry Processing Made Simple, co-authored by Prof. David Bommes, won the Best Paper Award 1st place at the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2022.

FRAMES 2021

On December 6th 2021, the 3rd edition of FRAMES workshop will be hosted online by AlgoHex. This workshop on hexahedral mesh generation and auxiliary tools (a.k.a. frame fields) is jointly organized with Pixel (INRIA), and Hextreme (Gmsh). Further information is available on the workshop website.

Invited talk by visiting researcher Tim Felle Olsen, TU Denmark

Title: Synthesis of Frame Field-aligned Multi-Laminar Structures Thursday, October 28th, 2021, Time: 16:30 Location: N10, room 302

Best paper award SGP'21

The paper Geodesic Distance Computation via Virtual Source Propagation, coauthored by Prof. David Bommes, won the Best Paper Award (2nd place) at the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021.

Presentations at ACM SIGGRAPH 2020

Two of our contributions on representing and optimizing frame fields will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2020: Algebraic Representations for Volumetric Frame Fields and Octahedral Frames for Feature-Aligned Cross Fields

Invited Talks from Hextreme team UCL, Belgium

Pierre-Alexandre Beaufort and Maxence Reberol (both from the hextreme team at UC Louvain) will be visiting us. There will be two talks on Wednesday 4th, 11:00 and 14:00 respectively, see Talks section to learn more.

Invited talk, Max Lyon. RWTH Aachen University

Title: Parametrization Quantization with Free Boundaries for Trimmed Quad Meshing Friday, Feb. 21st Time: 10:00 Location: N10, room 302

AlgoHex kick-off

Today is the first day of AlgoHex. We're excited to officially start our mission to revolutionize hexahedral mesh generation.

Invited talk Valentin Nigolian

Valentin Nigolian visited our group and gave a talk about his research project titled: INVANER: INteractive VAscular Network Editing and Repair

Project announcement

We are proud to announce the AlgoHex (Algorithmic Hexahedral Mesh Generation) project conducted at the Computer Graphics Group of the University of Bern under the leadership of Prof. Dr. David Bommes.

University press release (German language)

Selective Padding for Polycube-based Hexahedral Meshing

The paper "Selective Padding for Polycube-based Hexahedral Meshing" was accepted to Computer Graphics Forum.

SIGGRAPH 2019 technical committee

David Bommes will serve on the technical papers committee for SIGGRAPH2019, which will take place in Los Angeles, USA. SIGGRAPH is the premiere international conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques.

New SIGGRAPH paper

The paper "Singularity-Constrained Octahedral Fields for Hexahedral Meshing" was accepted for publication and is to be presented in SIGGRAPH 2018 Conference.

David Bommes on SIGGRAPH 2018 technical papers committee

David Bommes will serve on the technical papers committee for SIGGRAPH 2018, which will take place in Vancouver, Canada. SIGGRAPH is the premiere international conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Octahedral Fields paper

Our paper Octahedral Fields was presented at SIGGRAPH 2017.

SIGGRAPH course

The course Directional Field Synthesis, Design, and Processing was taught at SIGGRAPH 2017.

David Bommes obtained habilitation equivalence

David Bommes obtained habilitation equivalence through the positive evaluation of his junior professorship.

David Bommes was elected as one of the newly established Eurographics Junior Fellows

David Bommes was elected as one of the newly established Eurographics Junior Fellows.

HexEx paper

Our paper HexEx was presented at SIGGRAPH 2016.

Prof. Dr. David Bommes received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2016

In this year's edition of the European Association of Computer Graphics Conference, Eurographics 2016, held in Lisbon, Prof. Dr. David Bommes was granted the Young Researcher Award for his outstanding contribution to the field of quad mesh generation and optimization.

Bendfields paper

Our paper on BendFields was presented at SIGGRAPH 2015.