Objet 3D (format de fichier)OBJ est un format de fichier contenant la description d'une géométrie 3D. Il a été défini par la société Wavefront Technologies dans le cadre du développement de son logiciel d'animation Advanced Visualizer. Ce format de fichier est ouvert et a été adopté par d'autres logiciels 3D (tels que 3D Turbo de iluac software Poser de e-frontier, Maya de Autodesk, Blender, MeshLab, 3D Studio Max, LightWave 3D de Newtek, GLC Player etc) pour des traitements d'import / export de données.
Volume meshIn 3D computer graphics and modeling, volumetric meshes are a polygonal representation of the interior volume of an object. Unlike polygon meshes, which represent only the surface as polygons, volumetric meshes also discretize the interior structure of the object. One application of volumetric meshes is in finite element analysis, which may use regular or irregular volumetric meshes to compute internal stresses and forces in an object throughout the entire volume of the object. Volume meshes may also be used for portal rendering.
Winged edgeIn computer graphics, the winged edge data structure is a way to represent polygon meshes in computer memory. It is a type of boundary representation and describes both the geometry and topology of a model. Three types of records are used: vertex records, edge records, and face records. Given a reference to an edge record, one can answer several types of adjacency queries (queries about neighboring edges, vertices and faces) in constant time. This kind of adjacency information is useful for algorithms such as subdivision surface.
Types of meshA mesh is a representation of a larger geometric domain by smaller discrete cells. Meshes are commonly used to compute solutions of partial differential equations and render computer graphics, and to analyze geographical and cartographic data. A mesh partitions space into elements (or cells or zones) over which the equations can be solved, which then approximates the solution over the larger domain. Element boundaries may be constrained to lie on internal or external boundaries within a model.
Maillagethumb|Maillage d'un disque par des triangles (triangulation). Un maillage est la discrétisation spatiale d'un milieu continu, ou aussi, une modélisation géométrique d’un domaine par des éléments proportionnés finis et bien définis. L'objet d'un maillage est de procéder à une simplification d'un système par un modèle représentant ce système et, éventuellement, son environnement (le milieu), dans l'optique de simulations de calculs ou de représentations graphiques. On parle également dans le langage commun de pavage.
Tessellation (computer graphics)In computer graphics, tessellation is the dividing of datasets of polygons (sometimes called vertex sets) presenting objects in a scene into suitable structures for rendering. Especially for real-time rendering, data is tessellated into triangles, for example in OpenGL 4.0 and Direct3D 11. A key advantage of tessellation for realtime graphics is that it allows detail to be dynamically added and subtracted from a 3D polygon mesh and its silhouette edges based on control parameters (often camera distance).
Surface triangulationTriangulation of a surface means a net of triangles, which covers a given surface partly or totally, or the procedure of generating the points and triangles of such a net of triangles. This article describes the generation of a net of triangles. In literature there are contributions which deal with the optimization of a given net. Surface triangulations are important for visualizing surfaces and the application of finite element methods.
MeshLabMeshLab est un logiciel libre de traitement de maillages 3D. Ce programme est développé depuis 2005 par l' et le CNR, dans le but de fournir un outil généraliste pour la manipulation et l'édition de modèles 3D importants, provenant notamment de scans 3D. Il propose différents filtres de nettoyage du maillage (suppression des vertex non référencés par exemple), des outils de re-maillage (simplification, subdivision, reconstruction de surfaces...) et des fonctions de suppression de bruit (adoucissement, etc.).
Computer representation of surfacesIn technical applications of 3D computer graphics (CAx) such as computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, surfaces are one way of representing objects. The other ways are wireframe (lines and curves) and solids. Point clouds are also sometimes used as temporary ways to represent an object, with the goal of using the points to create one or more of the three permanent representations. If one considers a local parametrization of a surface: then the curves obtained by varying u while keeping v fixed are coordinate lines, sometimes called the u flow lines.
Geometry processingGeometry processing, or mesh processing, is an area of research that uses concepts from applied mathematics, computer science and engineering to design efficient algorithms for the acquisition, reconstruction, analysis, manipulation, simulation and transmission of complex 3D models. As the name implies, many of the concepts, data structures, and algorithms are directly analogous to signal processing and .
