public alpha release of libigl - a c++ geometry processing library
Alec Jacobson
April 22, 2013
We've finally released our in-house C++ library for geometry processing called libigl.
libigl is a simple c++ geometry processing library. We have a wide functionality including construction of sparse discrete differential geometry operators and finite-elements matrices such as the contangent Laplacian and diagonalized mass matrix, simple facet and edge-based topology data structures, mesh-viewing utilities for opengl and glsl, and many core functions for matrix manipulation which make Eigen feel a lot more like MATLAB.
It is first and foremost a header library. Each header file contains a single function. Most are tailored to operate on a generic triangle mesh stored in an n-by-3 matrix of vertex positions V and an m-by-3 matrix of triangle indices F.
The library may also be compiled into a statically linked library, for faster compile times with your projects.
We use the Eigen library heavily in our code. Our group prototypes a lot in MATLAB, and we have a useful conversion table from MATLAB to libigl/Eigen.
Visit the project page and download our code!