Reference Manual

Sébastien Loriot, Jane Tournois, Mael Rouxel-Labbé, Konstantinos Katrioplas, Ivan Pađen, Hossam Saeed, Ilker O. Yaz, and Sébastien Valette

This package provides a collection of methods and classes to perform meshing and remeshing of polygonal meshes, including triangulation of non-triangulated meshes, refinement and simplification, as well as optimization and smoothing algorithms.

Introduced in: CGAL 4.7
Depends on: documented for each function
BibTeX: cgal:pmp-remesh-26a
License: GPL
Windows Demo: CGAL Lab

Classified Reference Pages

Parameters

Optional parameters of the functions of this package are implemented as Named Parameters. The page Named Parameters describes their usage.

Combinatorial Remeshing

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_face()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_faces()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_polygons()

Remeshing (Local Approach)

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::isotropic_remeshing()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::split_long_edges()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::approximated_centroidal_Voronoi_diagram_remeshing()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::smooth_mesh() (deprecated)
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::angle_and_area_smoothing()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::tangential_relaxation()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::smooth_shape()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::refine()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::fair()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::random_perturbation()

Global Remeshing

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::surface_Delaunay_remeshing()

Planar Patch Simplification

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::remesh_planar_patches()
• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::remesh_almost_planar_patches()

Mesh Extrusion

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::extrude_mesh()

See Also

• CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::IO::read_polygon_mesh()
• Feature Detection Functions

Topics
	Combinatorial Remeshing
	Functions to modify the combinatorial structure of a polygon mesh.
	Local Remeshing Algorithms
	Functions to iteratively remesh a polygon mesh using local operations.
	Global Remeshing Algorithms
	Functions to generate meshes using global approaches that completely overhaul the mesh.
	Planar Patch Simplification
	Functions to simplify planar patches of a polygon mesh.
	Meshing
	Generic functions to mesh and remesh polygon meshes.