vcglib/README.md

The **_Visualization and Computer Graphics Library_** (VCGlib for short) is an open source, portable, and templated library written in C++, with no external dependencies, for manipulation, processing, cleaning, and simplifying triangle meshes.

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The library, composed by more than 100k lines of code, is released under the GPL license, and it is the base of most of the software tools of the [Visual Computing Lab](http://vcg.isti.cnr.it) of the Italian National Research Council Institute - ISTI, like [MeshLab](http://www.meshlab.net/), [Metro](http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/vcglib/metro.html) and many others.

The VCG library is tailored to mostly manage triangular meshes: The library is fairly large and offers many state-of-the-art capabilities for processing meshes, such as:

- high quality quadric-error edge-collapse based simplfication
- efficient spatial query structures (uniform grids, hashed grids, kdtree, etc)
- advanced smoothing and fairing algorithms
- computation of curvature
- optimization of texture coordinates
- Hausdorff distance computation
- geodesic paths
- mesh repairing capabilities
- isosurface extraction and advancing front meshing algorithms
- Poisson Disk sampling and other tools to sample point distributions over meshes
- subdivision surfaces

## Notable Applications

A number of applications have been developed using the VCGlib:

- MeshLab: the renowed open source mesh processing software
- Metro, the tool for measuring differences between meshes
- The first high quality out-of-core mesh simplifier that was used by the Stanford Digital Michelangelo project to process their huge 3D scanned models.

## Contacts

For any info about licensing (portions of) the library please contact us:
Paolo Cignoni (p.cignoni@isti.cnr.it)
Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council - ISTI

In case of bugs please report them [here](https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib/issues).
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apply #19, #78, #84, #157, #159 2021-08-23 11:07:40 +02:00			`The library, composed by more than 100k lines of code, is released under the GPL license, and it is the base of most of the software tools of the [Visual Computing Lab](http://vcg.isti.cnr.it) of the Italian National Research Council Institute - ISTI, like [MeshLab](http://www.meshlab.net/), [Metro](http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/vcglib/metro.html) and many others.`
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apply #19, #78, #84, #157, #159 2021-08-23 11:07:40 +02:00			`The VCG library is tailored to mostly manage triangular meshes: The library is fairly large and offers many state-of-the-art capabilities for processing meshes, such as:`
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apply #19, #78, #84, #157, #159 2021-08-23 11:07:40 +02:00			`- high quality quadric-error edge-collapse based simplfication`
			`- efficient spatial query structures (uniform grids, hashed grids, kdtree, etc)`
			`- advanced smoothing and fairing algorithms`
			`- computation of curvature`
			`- optimization of texture coordinates`
			`- Hausdorff distance computation`
			`- geodesic paths`
			`- mesh repairing capabilities`
			`- isosurface extraction and advancing front meshing algorithms`
			`- Poisson Disk sampling and other tools to sample point distributions over meshes`
Create readme.md 2016-06-14 19:25:46 +02:00			`- subdivision surfaces`

			`## Notable Applications`

apply #19, #78, #84, #157, #159 2021-08-23 11:07:40 +02:00			`A number of applications have been developed using the VCGlib:`
Create readme.md 2016-06-14 19:25:46 +02:00
apply #19, #78, #84, #157, #159 2021-08-23 11:07:40 +02:00			`- MeshLab: the renowed open source mesh processing software`
Create readme.md 2016-06-14 19:25:46 +02:00			`- Metro, the tool for measuring differences between meshes`
			`- The first high quality out-of-core mesh simplifier that was used by the Stanford Digital Michelangelo project to process their huge 3D scanned models.`

			`## Contacts`

apply #19, #78, #84, #157, #159 2021-08-23 11:07:40 +02:00			`For any info about licensing (portions of) the library please contact us:`
			`Paolo Cignoni (p.cignoni@isti.cnr.it)`
Create readme.md 2016-06-14 19:25:46 +02:00			`Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council - ISTI`

apply #19, #78, #84, #157, #159 2021-08-23 11:07:40 +02:00			`In case of bugs please report them [here](https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib/issues).`