MeshLab is an open source portable and
extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular
meshes.
The system is aimed to help the processing of
@@ -41,35 +45,35 @@ 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
+European Network of Excellence Epoch
The system is heavily
based on the VCG
-library developed at the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI - CNR, for all the
+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
+href="http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/%7Ecignoni/FGT0506/index.html">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.
Download Download Latest Version (22/6/2006) -V0.7
+V0.7
Remember that, whenever you use MeshLab in a official/commercial project, you should feel morally -obligated to:
+obligated to:-
-
- Explicitly cite in your work that you have used MeshLab a tool developed with the support of the Epoch NOE, +
- Explicitly cite in your work that you have used MeshLab a tool developed with the support of the Epoch NOE,
- Post a couple of lines in the users' forum describing the project where MeshLab was - used.
Features
+ >users' forum describing the project where MeshLab was + used. +Features
- Interactive selection and deletion of portion of the mesh. Even for large models. @@ -78,149 +82,162 @@ obligated to: mesh processing functions, colorization filters and support for different file formats is quite easy (look at this code sample) + >sample)
- Cleaning Filters:
- removal of duplicated, unreferenced vertices, null - faces
- subdivision filters (midpoint, loop and butterfly) -
- coherent normal unification and flipping
-
-
- Gaussian and mean curvature +
- Gaussian and mean curvature
- Border edges -
- Non two-manifold faces -
General questions +the sourceforge service ->
General questions can be posted on the help public forums -
ScreenShots
Taken from v 0.5. +href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499533">help public forums +ScreenShots
| Snapshots taken from MeshLab v 0.7 - | ||
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+ An interactive editing session over the a mesh built a using geometry-from-photo-sequence reconstruction tool developed withing the EPOCH framework. + An unwanted part of the mesh is selected and deleted. Original + mesh courtesy of the Epoch network. |
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An interactive editing session over the 8M tri David model. The bottom part of the mesh is selected and deleted. Original mesh courtesy of Stanford Digital Michelangelo Project. | |
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One example of real time NPR rendering using a hatching style implemented through a OpenGL shader. The shader was used to - create the high res snapshot (2282x2942). |
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+ Snapshots taken from MeshLab v 0.6 + | |
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A couple of examples of a OpenGL shaders applied over a 3.7 Mtri model (courtesy of Aim@Shape Shape repository).. | |
| Snapshots taken from MeshLab v 0.5 - | ||
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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. + href="http://www.xyzrgb.com/"> 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 + >Stanford Digital Michelangelo Project, texturing done by Visual Computing Lab ISTI - CNR through + >Visual Computing Lab ISTI - CNR through integration of photos taken during the Restoration of the David. |
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A model with self intersecting faces detected by MeshLab colored in red. Mesh courtesy of the Aim@Shape Shape - Repository. |
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A model with border edges colored in blue. Mesh courtesy of the Shape - Repository of Aim@Shape. |
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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 + >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 + >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 + >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. |
Developers
+ quality of the original 20 Mpix image. +Developers
- Designer: Paolo Cignoni + >Paolo Cignoni
- Filtering Plugins:
- Mario Latronico [latronic], Andrea Venturi [giec]
- Alessio Mochi [mochi], Daniele Vacca [glVertex], Davide Portelli [portelli]
- Francesco Vannini [vannini], Giorgio Gangemi [ggangemi]
-
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- Andrea Buzzelli [buzzelli], Guido Ranzuglia [granzuglia], Federico Mazzanti [fmazzant] -
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- Maarten Vergauwen [zifnab1974] -
History
+History
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-
- 22/06/2006 V 0.7 Release +
- 22/06/2006 V 0.7 Release
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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) @@ -229,13 +246,13 @@ border=1> Better choice of initial modes Automatic Installer for windows No more intrusive progress bars -
- - 12/03/2006 V 0.6 Release + +
- 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 @@ -272,51 +289,51 @@ border=1> - Better scalable fonts - Quick help on screen (Press F1) - About plugin restyled -- - 13/01/2006 V 0.5 Release + +
- 13/01/2006 V 0.5 Release
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* General issues
-
- Switched to qt4.1
- Corrected Trackball panning
- Safer initialization of color data
- Better memory management (removed HUGE memory leaks...)
- Meshlab icon and logo
- About plugin Dialog
* Plugin System
- Filters:
Invert Faces
- Colorize:
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
- Import/Export:
Managing error messages if saving fails
.3DS Imporer first rough implementation
.3DS Export Standardization, saves vertexes and faces + color per face
.3DS Export introduced materials managing
.OBJ Import solved some bugs during file import
.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
- CTRL+F4 close current file
- Fonts ok - - 24/12/2005 V 0.4 Release + +
- 24/12/2005 V 0.4 Release
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* Plugin System
-
- Improved PluginSystem
- Improved shaders support (based on Typhoon Labs shaders)
- Filtering: Customizable filters thru dialogs
- Filters:
Laplacian smooth
MidPoint Subdivision
Re-orient
Decimator
- Editing (No editing tools available)
- Colorize:
Self intersection
Border
- Import/Export:
obj File Format (Customizable export thru dialog)
off File Format
stl File Format
3ds File Format
- Decoration:
Show Axis
Show Box Corners
* User Interface
- Bugless progress bar
- About Plugin dialog
- Logging - - 07/12/2005 V 0.3 Release + +
- 07/12/2005 V 0.3 Release
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* Plugin System
-
- Complete restyling of plugin architecture
- Color: None, Per Vertex, Per Face
- Color: Support for shaders (wow!). Provided toon shader sample.
- Filtering: Remove Null Faces
- Filtering: Butterfly & Loop optimized
- Decorize: New plugin class
- Import/Export: Obj file format integrated on standard user interface
* User Interface
- Info Panel:
Showing some mesh info (numTri&numFaces)
Showing fps
- Shortcut for some frequently used actions
- Trackball hidable
- Option dialog:
Background colors (Top&Bottom)
Log Area color
- Progress bar
- RenderModes: Textures
- Fullscreen
- Cycle thru opened windows with Next button
- About dialog - - 27/11/2005 V 0.2 Release -
- 15/11/2005 V 0.1 Release -
- 17/10/2005 Committed + +
- 27/11/2005 V 0.2 Release +
- 15/11/2005 V 0.1 Release +
- 17/10/2005 Committed
first rough framework. The development has just begun... < /UL>
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