MeshLab is an open source portable and
+extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular
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The system is aimed to help the processing of
+the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a
+set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and
+converting this kind of meshes.
+The project is supported by the
+European Networks of Excellence Epoch
+The system is heavily
+based on the VCG
+library developed at the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI - CNR, for all the
+core mesh processing tasks. The MeshLab system started as a part of the FGT course of the Computer Science
+department of University of Pisa and most of the code (~15k
+lines) of the first versions was written by a handful of students.
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+Explicitly cite in your work that you have used MeshLab a tool developed with the support of the Epoch NOE,
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+OpenGL Shader based rendering (write you own shader!)
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- Large rendering (up to 16k x 16k) for high quality printing
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+ OpenGL Shader based rendering (write your own
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+ Large rendering (up to 16k x 16k) for high quality
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+ Various Colorization/inspecting Filters
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Linux Porting and Epoch integration:
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-MeshLab is an open source portable and extendible system for the processing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.
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-The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small
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-The system is heavily based on the VCG library
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-- CNR, for all the core mesh processing tasks. The MeshLab system started as a part of the FGT
-course of the Computer Science department
-of University of Pisa and currently most of the developed code (~15k lines) is
-authored by a handful of students.
The project is supported by the European Networks of Excellence Epoch
- - -Download Latest Version (13/3/2006) V0.6
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Remember that, whenever you use MeshLab in a official/commercial project, you should feel morally obligated to:
- + +Download Latest Version (22/6/2006) +V0.7
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Remember that, whenever you use MeshLab in a +official/commercial project, you should feel morally +obligated to:
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Features
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- Input/output in many formats (PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS) - - - - - - - -
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- Interactive selection and deletion of portion of the + mesh. Even for large models. +
- Input/output in many formats (PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS) +
- Extendible plugins based architecture, writing new + mesh processing functions, colorization filters and support for different file + formats is quite easy (look at this code sample) +
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- A 10,000,000 face model successfully -loaded and ready for inspecting. 3D Model of a Thai statue -courtesy of XYZ -RGB inc. provided by the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository. | - - - - - - - -
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- A textured ply model of the well known Michelangelo -David, original mesh courtesy of Stanford Digital Michelangelo Project, -texturing done by Visual -Computing Lab ISTI - CNR through integration of photos taken during the Restoration of the David. | - - - - - - - -
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- A high resolution snapshot (4400x9110) taken with -MeshLab of the 10 Mtri 3D model of the above cited Thai -statuette. The snapshot is a 17Mb png, so you can download -it using the sourceforge file distribution system. On the right you can -see a very small portion of the orginal sample just to give you an idea -of the quality of a 40 Mpix image. | - - - - - - - -
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- An high resolution rendering (3200x6424) taken with -MeshLab of the 8 Mtri model of the Michelangelo David. Original mesh courtesy of Stanford Digital Michelangelo Project. The model is -interactively rendered using a pre-computed ambient occlusion term -computed with the open source ShadeVis tool. On the right you can -see a very small portion of the original rendering just to give you an idea -of the quality of the original 20 Mpix image. | - - -
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General issues
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- Decoration:
Thicked axes with arrows and axes names
Quoted Box
Normals restyled
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Sub-division surface
Remove triangles above threshold
Apply Transformation
Color non-manifold
- Colorize:
Curvature code restyled
RMS curvature
Absolute curvature
By Quality
Added restore color function
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Import code restyled and optimized
Runtime dynamic dialog created to change shader properties
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* User Interface
- Reimplemented double-sided lighting
- Added some new shortcuts
- Optimizations in ChangeFOV (Vertigo)
- Solved OpenGL bugs on FLAT_LINES
- Solved bug in trackball visualization
- Light direction can be rotated
- Better scalable fonts
- Quick help on screen (Press F1)
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Selection and Editing of large meshes is now possible! + Recording and replaying of history of filters + Filter classes restructured (now filters are assigned to different submenus) + Rewrote of Clustering simplification algorithms + Shaders debugged + Better choice of initial modes + Automatic Installer for windows + No more intrusive progress bars +
+ - 12/03/2006 V 0.6 Release
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General issues + - Slight code restyling in order to reduce the lines of code + - Command line execution now works correctly + - Better managing of optional mesh datas + - Better color initialization + Plugin System + - Decoration: + Thicked axes with arrows and axes names + Quoted Box + Normals restyled + - Filters + Sub-division surface + Remove triangles above threshold + Apply Transformation + Color non-manifold + - Colorize: + Curvature code restyled
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- Corrected Trackball panning
- Safer initialization of color data
- Better memory management (removed HUGE memory leaks...)
- Meshlab icon and logo
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Invert Faces
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Logging mesh curvature info
Rewritten code to follow coding conventions
Mean Curvature
Color non Manifold (now sets colorPerVert)
Moved mean and gaussian curvature functions into color_curvature.h
- Normals restyled
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Managing error messages if saving fails
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.3DS Export Standardization, saves vertexes and faces + color per face
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.OBJ Export higly improved speed
* User Interface
- Clipping planes now can be moved via CTRL+SHIFT+mouse wheel
- Vertigo FOV with CTRL+mouse wheel
- Icons restyled (transparent)
- Changed snapshot toolbar icon
- Reapply last filter command
- Reload command
- About dialog restyled
- CTRL+Tab switch to next opened window
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* Plugin System
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- Improved PluginSystem
- Improved shaders support (based on Typhoon Labs shaders)
- Filtering: Customizable filters thru dialogs
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Laplacian smooth
MidPoint Subdivision
Re-orient
Decimator
- Editing (No editing tools available)
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Self intersection
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obj File Format (Customizable export thru dialog)
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- Decoration:
Show Axis
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- Bugless progress bar
- About Plugin dialog
- Logging + - 07/12/2005 V 0.3 Release
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* Plugin System
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- Complete restyling of plugin architecture
- Color: None, Per Vertex, Per Face
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- Filtering: Remove Null Faces
- Filtering: Butterfly & Loop optimized
- Decorize: New plugin class
- Import/Export: Obj file format integrated on standard user interface
* User Interface
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Showing some mesh info (numTri&numFaces)
Showing fps
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- Trackball hidable
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Background colors (Top&Bottom)
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- Normals restyled
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* User Interface
- Clipping planes now can be moved via CTRL+SHIFT+mouse wheel
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- Icons restyled (transparent)
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- Filtering: Remove Null Faces
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- Decorize: New plugin class
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