General introduction

MEPP2 is a C++ written ( generic programming oriented) SDK aiming at developing portable algorithms working on

• polygonal mesh (in 3D),
• volumic mesh (future work),
• point cloud.

In addition to cross-platform, portability should be understood as interoperability over third party data structure implementations like

• OpenMesh,
• CGAL's Surface Mesh or
• CGAL's Polyhedral Surface.

MEPP2 offers:

• Abstraction layers (aka wrappers) allowing to indifferently use the considered third party implementations.
• Data structures implementations like
  • the non manifold Adjacency and Incidence Framework (AIF) (more)
  • compact mesh representations
• Generic mesh treatments (aka filters) written on top of the wrappers
• Visualization components like an OpenSceneGraph based (QT widgets) component for
  • building derived GUI applications.
  • the production of article oriented illustrations
• Tools
  • CLI oriented:
    • examples and demos of filters
    • scripting tools allowing for quick macro-filters authoring as well as filter execution and batch processing (future work)
  • GUI oriented applications like a QT based mesh "debugger".

MEPP2 mainly targets

• researchers and/or Phd students, looking for portable tools allowing them to
  • develop mesh implementation independent (on top of various mesh concrete representations), portable (across platforms), robust and re-usable mesh treatments,
  • quickly compare algorithms and their implementations through benchmarking,
  • establishing mesh statistics (or quality indicators).
  • realize mesh treatments
• Application developers wishing to embed mesh treatments within specific industry tool chain, platform specific interfaces, or full featured applications dedicated to mesh non specialist end users.