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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Could you explain what you mean with compact triangle?

Maybe some screeshots would help.

Sebastien.

On 10/25/19 5:02 PM, Audette, Michel A. wrote:
> Dear CGAL experts,
>
> my student Shrabani Ghosh has been using the Triangulated Surface Mesh 
> Simplification algorithm, in attempting to decimate a surface model of 
> the human cranium. This model makes explicit the cranial openings, or 
> foramina, and we are adopting a decimation strategy where the foramina 
> faces are held as constant. My question to the community is: how can we 
> ensure that the surface mesh produces compact triangular faces? If I 
> look at what our results look like, and compare that to the three hand 
> models on the website, the hand models have exquisite compact triangles 
> everywhere, while our results have a number of elongated faces. Is this 
> a parameter in the simplification that we can set, in order to make the 
> decimation define new faces with low aspect ratios?
>
> Thanks for your kind support. Best wishes,
>
> Michel
>
> Michel Audette, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor,
> Department of Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering,
> Old Dominion University,
> Norfolk, VA.