Mid-edge subdivision replaces each mesh edge by its midpoint, joins successive midpoints around every old face, and joins successive midpoints around every old vertex. For an interior manifold mesh, each new vertex has valence four. Each geometric update is a convex combination, so every refined control point remains in the convex hull of the original control mesh. The regular limit is associated with the quadratic four-direction box spline.
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