Papers & Archives

Mesh Libraries and Tools

• Surface_Mesh (D. Sieger, M. Botsch)
• GTS (2D dynamic/constrained Delaunay triangulation, robust geometric predicates, mesh boolean set operations, refinement/coarsening, view-independent continuous LOD, view-dependent LOD, AABB-trees, Kd-trees, graph partitioning, isosurfacing, area, volume, mean/gaussian/principal curvature, stripification)
• trimesh2 mesh library (read PLY/OFF/3DS/OBJ, write PLY/OFF/OBJ, subdivision, smoothing, curvature estimation, triangle stripping, ICP, cleanup, decimation, basic shapes) (S. Rusinkiewicz)
• OpenMesh (PLY/OBJ, halfedge mesh, decimation, Loop/Sqrt3 subdivision, view-dependent progressive meshes, stripification) (J. Möbius, M. Habbecke)
• CGAL (2D/3D halfedge mesh, tet meshes) [full packages list] (Authors)
• MeshLab (import PLY/STL/OFF/OBJ/3DS/COLLADA/PTX/V3D/PTS/APTS/XYZ/GTS/TRI/ASC/X3D/X3DV/VRML/ALN, export PLY/STL/OFF/OBJ/3DS/COLLADA/VRML/DXF/GTS/U3D/IDTF/X3D, selection/smoothing painting, linear measurements, export planar slices, mesh decimation/repair/optimization, mesh alignment) [All Filters] (Authors)
• OpenFlipper (import/export OFF/OBJ/PLY/STL/STLA/STLB/OM, selection tools w/ surface/volume lasso and sphere brush, decimation, smoothing, edge/face editing) (J. Möbius)
• mview (read/view PMesh/GTS/OFF/COFF/PLY/VRML/Shallo/VTK ASCII POLYDATA/OBJ) (H. Cantzler, T. Breckon)
• PLY Tools (read/write PLY)
• ply2vri (convert PLY mesh to signed-distance volumetric grid, VRI/PPM formats) (B.Allen)
• JMeshLib (read/write OFF/PLY/STL/VRML1/VRML2/OBJ/IV 2.1) (M. Attene)
• ReMESH (automatic manifold repair, isolated component removal, hole filling, handle removal, degenerate triangle removal, sharp feature recovery, defect detection and hilighting, manual repair tools) (M. Attenne)
• A48: A Dynamic Adaptive Mesh Library based on Stellar Operators (L. Velho)
• Volumetric Mesh: tetrahedral and cube volumetric 3D meshes (J. Barbic)
• 3d-workspace (quadric mesh simplification, re-meshing, recursive/monte-carlo/sphere-packing/voxel sampling, skeleton extraction, Laplacian/scale-dependent/mean-curvature-flow smoothing, Sqrt3/Loop/modified-butterfly/longest-edge subdivision, minimum bounding box, mean value coordinates, Green coordinates, curvature (polynomial fitting, two other implementations), FFD, voxel deformation, skinning with dual quaternions, mesh voxelization, octree, kd-tree, colormap, mesh slicing) (Authors)
• SimplexMesh: general non-manifold, non-regular simplicial mesh for mixed dimensions \leq 3 (C. Batty)

Shape Modeling

Segmentation

Parameterization

Mesh Processing

Point Set Processing

Curves and Surfaces

Computational Geometry

• TetGen: A Quality Tetrahedral Mesh Generator and a 3D Delaunay Triangulator (constrained/conforming Delaunay, Voronoi, boundary-conforming, quality/size control, adaptive mesh refinement, intersection testing) (H. Si)
• CGAL (n-D geometry, 2D/3D spherical geometry, n-D convex hull, 2D/3D/spherical booleans, 2D minkowski sums, 2D polygon partition/offset/skeleton, 2D curve intersection, 2D/3D envelopes, 2D/3D triangulation, 2D/3D alpha shapes, 2D delaunay/voronoi/apollonius/conforming delaunay/conforming gabriel, 3D delaunay isosurfacing, 3D skin surface, n-D spatial data structures, bounding volumes, optimal distances, least-squares geometry fitting, 2D/surface function interpolation, kinetic data structures, AABB Tree, 3D periodic triangulations, tetrahedral meshing w/ implicit/volume/polyhedral boundaries) [full packages list] (Authors)
• BOOLE convert CSG to Brep (curved solid primitives, polygonal solids) (T. Culver)
• MAPC: exact manipulation of algebraic points and curves in the plane (D. Manocha, J. Keyser, T. Culver, M. Foskey, S. Krishnan)
• UNC GAMMA Collision Detection/Proximity Query Packages (penetration depth, intersection detection, tolerance verification, exact and approximate distance computation, separation distance, contact determination, Minkowski sums, Lin-Canny closest features, uniform grid spatial decomposition, OBB/Swept-Sphere/convex-hull bounding-volume hierarchies, polygon soups, rigid motion)
• Antiprism polyhedra library (convex hull, polar reciprocals (dual meshes), geodesic spheres, uniform polyhedra, uniform tilings on surfaces, lattices and grids, ring/spiral of points on sphere, equilibrium of points repelling on sphere, near-uniform sphere tessellation, many other polyhedra types, OFF conversion utilities) [A. Rossiter]
• Nuages 3D delaunay mesh reconstruction from parallel cross-sections (B. Geiger)

Intersections and Distances

Photorealistic Rendering

NonPhotorealistic Rendering

Visualization

Simulation / Animation

• El Topo (robust surface tracking with triangle meshes) (T. Brochu, R. Bridson)
• CMU .ASF/.AMC/.V tools (J. McCann, C. Twigg, J. Barbic, ...?)
• DANCE (physics-based character animation and simulation) (A. Shapiro, V. Ng-Thow-Hing, P. Faloutsos)
• 2D Boiling Demo (CML coupled map atlas on GPU) (M. Harris, G. Coombe, T. Sheuermann, A. Lastra)
• Flo real-time 2D fluid simulation demo (Cg navier-stokes incompressible flow fixed no-slip boundaries) (G. James, M. Harris)
• Asynchronous Contact Mechanics (D. Harmon, E. Vouga, B. Smith, R. Tamstorf, E. Grinspun)
• Large Modal Deformation Factory: Model reduction of StVK FEM deformable models (linear modes, arbitrary free boundary conditions, modal derivatives, mass and stiffness matrices, triangle mesh to cube volume mesh conversion) (J. Barbic)
• harmonic oscillator: exact timestepping of 1D ODE (J. Barbic)
• Dynamics of a single rigid body (explicit Euler, symplectic Euler, time-varying external forces and torques, arbitrary inertia tensors) (J. Barbic)
• A Level-set Method for Skinning Animated Particle Data (thin-plate energy, grid mean curvature/laplacian/biharmonic, kdtree, marching tetrahedra) (H. Bhattacharya, Y. Gao, A. Bargteil)
• DelFEM (FEM, Poisson, Diffusion, Advection-Diffusion, Linear Solid, St.Venant-Kirchhoff Material, incompressive hyperelastic material, Stokes Fluid, Navier-Stokes Fluid, Helmholtz, 3D rigid body, 6 types of constraint model, coupling analysis of rigid and elastic material, ILU (0) preconditioned CG, ILU (0) preconditioned BiCGSTAB) (N. Umetani)
• DT-Grid: data structure for high-resolution level sets (volume-conserving mean curvature flow, shape metamorphosis, advection, one-sided, second-order central, WENO finite difference) (M. Nielsen, K. Museth)
• Exact CCD: Geometrically exact continuous collision detection for triangle meshes. (T. Brochu, E. Edwards, R. Bridson)
• Fluid3D: barebones 3D inviscid free-surface fluid simulator in irregular domains (C. Batty)
• VariationalViscosity2D: 2D viscous free surface simulation (C. Batty)

Texturing

2D

• mean-value coordinate image cloning (Z. Farbman, G. Hoffer, Y. Lipman, D. Cohen-Or, D. Lischinski)
• GraphDraw: draw 2D graphs and export as postscript (K. Crane)
• Anti-Grain Geometry Project (high-quality and efficient 2D software rasterizer: subpixel antialiasing, arbitrary polygons, gradients and gouraud shading, image filtering, bilinear, bicubic, spline16, spline32, sinc, blackman, strokes with joins and caps, dashed lines, head/tail markers, arrows, polygon clipping, alpha-masking, arbitrary images as line patterns, perspective and bilinear transformations, boolean polygon operations) (M. Shemanarev)
• 2.5D Cartoon Models (A. Rivers, T. Igarashi, F. Durand)

Image and Video Processing

Sampling

Data Structures and Compression

Numerics and Optimization

Data Sets

• Digital 210 King (building scans, Revit models, photographs, Green Building XML (gbXML) models, of 210 King St East (Autodesk Toronto building))
• DemoGraphite (bunny, horse, tiger-face, octaflower, rocker arm, engine volume, skull volume)
• Georgia Tech Large Geometric Models Archive (Bunny,Turbine Blade,skeleton hand,dragon,buddha,horse,visible man,grand canyon,puget sound,angel)
• Stanford 3D Scanning Repository (bunny, drill bit, buddha, dragon, armadillo, lucy, asian dragon, manuscript, thai statue)
• UNC Dynamic Mesh Datasets (per-frame meshes, exploding dragon and bunny, cloth simulation, N-body simulation, falling letters)
• Image-Based 3D Models (VRML/TRI formats, multiple resolutions, textured [mesh viewer]) (C. Esteban, F. Schmitt)
• Multi-frame 3D scans from video depthmaps (triangulated point clouds, OBJ format,100-2200 frames) (T. Weise, B. Leibe, L. Van Gool)
• ETH Face Pose Range Image Data Set (10,000 640x480 range image point sets of 20 moving faces, read/write code) (M. Breitenstein, D. Kuettel, T. Weise, L. van Gool, H. Pfister)
• Quadrangulations (fandisk,beetle,fertility,rockerarm) (H. Zimmer, D. Bommes, L. Kobbelt)
• Skinning Mesh Animations data (horse, camel, elephant, chicken, snake ) (D. James, C. Twigg)
• Deformation Transfer for Triangle Meshes (horse, camel, cat, lion, faces, flamingo, elephant) (R. Sumner, J. Popovic)
• Cornell Light Measurement Data (light source spectra, filter and lens transmission spectra, camera response spectra, reflectance data) 
  
• RenderPark (HDR, galerkin radiosity, stochastic jacobi radiosity, hierarchical, clustering, view-importance, higher-order approximations, random walk radiosity, photon mapping, stochastic ray tracing, bi-directional path tracing) (P. Bekaert,F. de Laet, P. Peers, V. Masselus, J. Prikryl, P. Dutre, O. Ceulemans)
• RaVi (real-time raytracer) (M. Granz)
• WinOSi (iterative two pass optical simulation raytracing) (M. Granz)
• Scopia.es 3D models (home furnishing objects, buildings, plants, characters, .3ds, .blend, .sh3d, .obj) (C. Folch, Scopia.es)
• Crytek Sponza Model v2 (increased complexity, 3ds, OBJ formats, textures) (F. Meinl, Crytek)
• TrueMarble earth image dataset (multiple resolutions from 32km to 250m, PNG and geo-referenced GeoTIFF formats) (Unearthed Outdoors LLC)
• Volume-Meshed Models (Heart, Eiffel Tower, Basket, Bridge, Dragon, Horse, Dinosaur, 3D Spring, Beam) (J. Barbic)
• Volume-Meshed Models (Cube, TFire, Tire, Dragon, Cow, Sculpt, LetterP, House, StayPuft) (B. Klinger, J. Shewchuck)
• McGuire Graphics Data (San Miguel, Crytek Sponza, Dabrovic Sponza, Sibenik Cathedral, Conference Room, Chinese Dragon, Teapot, Cube, Happy Buddha, Hairball, Cornell Box, Rungholt, Lost Empire, Infinite Realities Head, textured OBJs)
• Caltech Mesh Compendium (Ball Joint,Dinosaur Sculpture,Golf Club,Igea Artifact,Isis,Knee,Rocker Arm,Santa,Screwdriver,Teeth Casting,Horse,Skeleton Hand,Turbine Blade,Cactus,Cat,Cessna,Club,Cow,Distributor Cap,Engine,Fandisk,Gargoyle,Hypersheet,Knot,Mechanical Part,Oil Pump,Teapot,Tyrannosaurus Rex,Dragon,Feline Model,Femme,Happy Buddha,Headus Skull,Max Planck,Molecule,Rabbit Sculpture,Stanford Bunny,Zander,Zoë,Duck,Mummy,Bust of Nefertiti,Top,Totem,Vase #1,Vase #2,Chair,Dental Cast,Foot,Hand,female Mannequin Head,Pregnant Woman,kissing-children Sculpture,Shoe,Toilet,Cube,Hexagon,Icosahedron,Octahedron,Pentagon,Quadrilateral,Right Tetrahedron,Right Triangle,Armadillo Man,Dragon,Happy Buddha,Stanford Bunny,Cat Head,Face,Mannequin Head,Spocks Head,Stamped Part, Stegosaurus, Torus, Triceratops, Venus Torso)
• Aachen photo dataset (photos, SIFT descriptors, 3D reconstruction) (T. Sattler)

Vision

Machine Learning

• Infer.Net - Bayesian Inference in Graphical Models (T. Minka, J. Winn, J. Guiver, A. Kannan)
• ANN - C++ approximate neareset-neighbours in dimensions ~(8,20) (D. Mount, S. Arya)
• FLANN - Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbours (M. Muja, D. Lowe)

Bits and Pieces

• HXA graphics library (halton sequence, sobol sequence, color space conversions, radiance RGBE IO, random number generators, 2D radial filters) (H. Ainsworth)

Matlab

Latex

• Iain Murray's Latex Notes (squeezing)