A universal total curvature estimation method that works for both triangle meshes and point clouds. For details, see the SIGGRAPH 2023 paper by Crane Chen under the supervision of Misha Kazhdan.
This codebase is in libigl-style. We also implemented another version for open3d users, the open3d-style codebase of our paper can be found here.
- STL
- eigen for matrix data structures
- openmp for parallelization
- libigl for mesh data structures and geometry processing tools
- polyscope for 3D visualizations and rendering
The code was developed on MacOS 12.6. We verified the compilation and running of the code on Ubuntu 18.04. We also verifie the compilation and running of the code on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2022, where we accessed CMake through Visual Studio.
Compile
Fetch the code with dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/HeCraneChen/total-curvature-estimation.git --recursive
Compile this project using the standard cmake routine:
cd total-curvature-estimation
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
The above commands use FetchContent of CMake to automatically download libigl and its dependencies. If that did not work for you, try to point to the local libigl. In that case, use
cmake -DFETCHCONTENT_SOURCE_DIR_LIBIGL=../libigl ..
to replace
cmake ..
Run
From within the build directory, for triangle mesh, just issue:
./TotalCurvature --in ../example_data/cow.ply --out ../results/cow_mesh.txt --format mesh
For point cloud, just issue:
./TotalCurvature --in ../example_data/cow_points.ply ../example_data/cow_normals.ply --out ../results/cow_cloud.txt --format point_cloud
A glfw app should launch displaying a cow, rendered with color representing total curvature of each point. Results of the calculated curvature will be saved in a txt file. Note that the values in the visualizer has been rescaled for better visual effect. Refer to the output txt file for the calculated total curvature values.
Compile
Open the Visual Studio IDE, and click the following
Open a local folder and open the total-curvature-estimation folder cloned from this repo
File Open CMake... and open the CMakeLists.txt
Build Build All
Run
cd total-curvature-estimation
mkdir build
scp ./out/build/x64-Debug/TotalCurvature.exe ./build/TotalCurvature.exe
scp ./out/build/x64-Debug/_deps/gmp-src/lib/libgmp-10.dll ./build/libgmp-10.dll
cd build
TotalCurvature --in ../example_data/cow.ply --out ../results/cow_mesh.txt --format mesh
TotalCurvature --in ../example_data/cow_points.ply ../example_data/cow_normals.ply --out ../results/cow_cloud.txt --format point_cloud
@inproceedings{10.1145/3587421.3595439,
author = {Chen, Crane He},
title = {Estimating Discrete Total Curvature with Per Triangle Normal Variation},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400701436},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3587421.3595439},
doi = {10.1145/3587421.3595439},
booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Talks},
articleno = {56},
numpages = {2},
location = {Los Angeles, CA, USA},
series = {SIGGRAPH '23}
}