This research is carried out under auspices of the Dutch research school ASCI . Frank van der Stappen is the daily supervisor, Mark Overmars is the executive supervisor. My research, pictorially. Combining deformation and cutting looks like this, currently. You see a 900 cylinder being dilated slightly, while a number of cuts divides the object into pie-slices.
More pictures are over here .
The paper details how we combined an Finite Element simulation with cutting, and how we implemented cutting. Citeseer page . At ICAV 3D I presented a poster on the mesh data structure used. A short overview paper with some newer results will be presented at Miccai 2001 in the oral presentations stream. This paper deals with all of the above subjects.