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Mesh encoding

Exemple for a tetrahedron

  • 1st Solution: Soup of polygons

triangles = [(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0, 1.0),
             (0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0, 1.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0),
             (0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0), (1.0, 0.0, 0.0),
             (1.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0, 1.0)]

  • 2nd solution: Geometry, Connectivity

geometry = [(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0, 1.0)]
connectivity = [(0,1,3), (0,3,2), (0,2,1), (1,2,3)]

⇒ Prefered solution

  • + more space efficient

  • + modifying 1 vertex = 1 operation