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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hello,

On 11/20/2018 5:03 PM, Riedel, Torge wrote:

Hi CGAL-list,

 

in addition to my already done evaluation of CGAL there was a request to check and test for three more features:

 

1. Offset

Given a mesh (open / closed surface) we want to create a new mesh by offsetting each triangle of the mesh in its normal direction by a given value and then combining all the new triangles to a new mesh by (re)fitting their sizes (and maybe adding / remove triangles). I searched CGAL online documentation, but without luck to find something.

offset computation is under development, although offsetting to the two sides and optimized for relatively small offsets.

 

2. Swept-Volume

Given a mesh (open / closed surface) we want to create a new (closed) mesh by moving the mesh along a given path (I think approximated by a polygon).

 

I have found CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::extrude_mesh, but it is limited (documentation) to open surface meshes. If it would supported closed meshes too, I could use the signature with a Vector_3 on each line of the polygon one after another.

A researcher working at Mainz and/or Braunschweig University had written a swept volume using the Surface_mesher.
No idea what the status is.

 

3. Smoothing

Given a mesh (open surface) we want to create a new mesh by smoothing it. Starting with a simple example: Given a maximum angle between two triangles (the normals), sharp angles between two triangles will be smoothened by decreasing the angle while keeping the edge. Neighbour triangles will be modified too.

Imagine you have a cube. Then your method will not work. No idea if it has a chance to work when the surface is relatively smooth.

Best,

Andreas

 

I have not found a promising method yet.

 

Hope my explanation was somewhat clear, but I can give more information or paint pictures. It would be great if someone can help to go further.

 

Thank you and best regards
Torge

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