Blogs

Shape Models

Surface Correspondence Benchmark (400 watertight meshes in 20 categories is a cool starting point for playing with triangular meshes)
AIM@Shape (Digital Shape WorkBench v5.0)
COSEG (co-segmentation benchmark)
ShapeNet
Skeletonization Benchmark
A Large Dataset of Object Scans: more than ten thousand RGBD scans of real objects & reconstructed 3D models

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.

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)

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