Blogs

Shape Models

Shape Tools

  • SAP Visual Enterprise Author 7 (Deep Exploration 6.5): browsing, converting & simplifing meshes
  • MeshLab :: mesh viewer & large amount of basic operations
  • Geomagic Studio: point cloud processing, reconstruction, ...
  • KeyShot 5: for cool rendering used for high quality paper
  • Mapple processing and visualizing point clouds and polygonal models. the use of modern GPU features for rendering and interacting with huge point clouds and polygonal models; a nice and friendly user interface for rendering (e.g., copy/restore camera, walkthrough).
  • PcdViewer selection of points by sketching a rectangle, or by using a lasso tool. (source code avaliable).
  • CloudCompare: 3D point cloud and mesh processing software Open Source Project.

Common Tools

  • Atom: A hackable text editor
  • PicPick

Shape Library

  • OpenGL: Refer to references and resources of our Computer Graphics course
  • libigl: a simple header-only library for geometry processingt. Combines the rapid prototyping familiar to Matlab with the performance and versatility of C++. Examples: computation of differential quantities and operators, real-time deformation, parametrization, numerical optimization and remeshing. Good tutorial!
  • OpenMesh + LibQGLView: Flexible, efficient, lightweight, well documented and explained in homework of our digital geometry course.
  • CGAL + LibQGLView: heavyweight, cover various areas needing geometric computation, well documented
  • PCL (Point Cloud Library+VTK)
  • ReconstructMe: a powerful 3D real-time scanning & reconstruction system
  • Vega FEM Library: physical deformation by Jernej Barbic who also has some other interesting code
  • Starlab: efficient but less documents which lead to a steep learning curve.
  • ShapeOp:a header-only C++ library for static and dynamic geometry processing, using a unified framework for optimization under constraints. Examples of its applications include architectural design subject to geometric constraints, and physics simulation of elastic materials. No tutorial!
  • MEPP (CGAL + QT + LibQGLView)  in French
  • openMVG (open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion.)
  • Graphite ( + numerical solvers)
  • Open Scene Graph (good renderer)

Jupyter

run code in browser or cloud free, no c++ still (you have to setup your own linux server with Cling)

  • Anaconda: Leading Open Data Science Platform Powered by Python. [easy to install; with IPython notebook, Numpy, deep learning, GPU, ...]
  • Sagemath cloud: for Python, Octave, R, Latex
  • Binder: Turn a GitHub repo into a collection of interactive notebooks powered by Jupyter and Kubernetes.
  • wakari: web-based Python data analysis
  • Microsoft Azure Machine Learning: Python, R
  • IBM DataScientist Workbench

Source code