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Show HN: A Polygon Mesh Processing Library (pmp-library.org)
41 points by dsieger 2580 days ago
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electricslpnsld 2580 days ago
What is the use case of PMP over something like IGL [1]? IGL has a ridiculous number of implemented algorithms -- at this point the second a new paper comes out in the geometry processing community it gets implemented in IGL!

[1] https://libigl.github.io

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dsieger 2580 days ago
There are a couple of things, actually:

- A proper mesh data structure providing meaningful abstractions

- Support for general polygon meshes

- Support for dynamic connectivity updates

- Cross-compilation to JavaScript, allowing for web-based demos[1] and interactive HTML slides[2]

- Implementations of canonical algorithms as described in the standard textbook of the field (Polygon Mesh Processing[3])

[1] http://www.pmp-library.org/mpview.html

[2] https://pmp-library.github.io/pmp-slides/slides.html

[3] http://www.pmp-book.org

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huxingyi 2579 days ago
Looks like a really good start. One suggestion: add mesh boolean algorithm, currently, only CGAL do this well, if your library could supports this on the MIT license, I would definitely try it. Currently, I am using libigl to do parameterization and CGAL to do mesh boolean in my 3D modeling software[1]

[1] https://github.com/huxingyi/dust3d

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dsieger 2579 days ago
Thanks for the suggestion, definitely something to think about. However, this is also non-trivial to implement in a robust and efficient manner, so not sure we'll look at this soon.
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fulafel 2580 days ago
Sounds promising. If authors are reading this: web demo ui is too small on mobile.
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dsieger 2580 days ago
Co-author here. Good point. So far we did not yet really optimize for mobile. Thanks for the feedback.
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