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/** \mainpage The VCG Library
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The Visualization and Computer Graphics Library (VCG for short) is
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a open source portable C++ templated library for manipulation, processing
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and displaying with OpenGL of triangle and tetrahedral meshes.
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VCG Lib uses a git repository hosted by github at http://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib/
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The library, composed by more than 100k lines of code,
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is released under the GPL license, and it is the base of most of the
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software tools of the <b>Visual Computing Lab</b> of the Italian National Research Council Institute ISTI
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(http://vcg.isti.cnr.it), like metro and MeshLab.
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The VCG library is tailored to mostly manage triangular meshes:
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The library is fairly large and offers many state of the art functionalities for processing meshes, like:
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- high quality quadric-error edge-collapse based simplification,
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- efficient spatial query structures (uniform grids, hashed grids, kdtree, ...) ,
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- advanced smoothing and fairing algorithms,
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- computation of curvature,
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- optimization of texture coordinates,
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- Hausdorff distance computation,
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- Geodesic paths,
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- mesh repairing capabilities,
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- isosurface extraction and advancing front meshing algorithms,
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- Poisson Disk sampling and other tools to sample point distributions over meshes,
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- subdivision surfaces,
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Documentation
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Start from the following pages for basic concepts and examples.
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- \subpage install "Installing the VCG Library"
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- \subpage basic_concepts "Basic Concepts"
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- \subpage optional_component "Optional Component"
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- \subpage flags "Bit Flags on mesh elements"
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- \subpage adjacency "Adjacency and Topology"
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- \subpage allocation "Creating and destroying elements"
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- \subpage attributes "Adding user defined attributes to mesh elements"
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- \subpage fileformat "Loading and saving meshes"
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- \subpage shot "Camera and shot abstraction for managing views"
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- \ref code_sample "Short Examples showing various features of the library"
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Notable Applications
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A number of applications have been developed using the vcglib:
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- <a href="http://www.meshlab.net">MeshLab</a>: the renowned open source mesh processing is based on this library.
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- \subpage metro "Metro, the tool for measuring differences between meshes"
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- The first high quality <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=940008"> out-of-core mesh simplifier </a> that was used by the Stanford Digital Michelangelo project to process their huge 3D scanned models.
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Contacts
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For any info about licensing (portion of) the library please contact us:<br>
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<b> Paolo Cignoni (p.cignoni@isti.cnr.it) </b><br>
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<b> Fabio Ganovelli (f.ganovelli@isti.cnr.it) </b><br>
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<a href="http://vcg.isti.cnr.it">Visual Computing Lab</a> of the Italian National Research Council - ISTI
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In case of \b bugs please report them <a href="https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib/issues"> here</a>.
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*/
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