mesh-simplification

An alternative to qslim algorithm using vtk

Input and Output Remarks

The current version implements a custom reader and writer of smf file format.
Other format such as OFF can be easily implemented.

Dependency

OpenGL

• Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

• CentOS

$ sudo yum install freeglut-devel

The Visualization Toolkit(VTK)

• Introduction
• Website
• Download
• Installation Guide

Build

• if you have all dependencies already installed:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../src
$ make

• if you have not installed any dependencies:

$ ./compile_<Your OS>.sh

After finished, go into build/ folder.

Run

This is a dummy running command temporarily for pipeline testing.

$ ./simplification -n <target no. of polygons> -o <output filename> <input filename>

Wiki

If you want to learn more, I also created a simple wiki page to briefly introduce vtk and the algorithms. Check out here.