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| Title | Camarón: An Open-source Visualization Tool for the Quality Inspection of Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes |
| Authors | Aldo Canepa, Claudio Lobos, Nancy Hitschfeld, Gonzalo Infante |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Abstract | The numerical simulation of phenomena requires a good quality discretization (mesh) of the domain. Depending on the problem to be simulated, the mesh has to fulfil different quality criteria. Because of geometry restrictions or point density requirements, several mesh elements might not satisfy the required quality criteria and sometimes it is also not required that all elements fulfil them. Then, it would be helpful to know where unwanted elements are located in order to see if they need to be repaired or not. That is why a visualization tool that allows the user to inspect a mesh before a simulation is performed can be useful to prevent simulation problems. Moreover, if data from simulations is available, the visualization of geometrical properties together with simulation data could be also helpful to understand not expected results. These challenges have motivated us to develop Camar´on, a visualization tool for large surface and volume meshes described in this paper. The surface meshes can be composed any polygonal cell and the 3D meshes can include any convex polyhedral cell. This tool was implemented in C++ and the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL). We discuss the design and implementation issues that make our software portable, extensible and different from other visualization tools. We also compare the performance between Camarón and GeomView, TetView and MeshLab. |
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| Pages | 130-137 |
| Conference name | International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications |
| Publisher | SCITEPress: Science and Technology Publicatios |
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