MeshHistogram

Description

MeshHistogram takes as input a mesh and outputs an histogram of edge lengths in the mesh in XMGR format. This function can be used to see how evenly spaced the vertices are in a surface mesh.

Files

MeshHistogram.c is the controlling function. It reads in the mesh and calls the function to compute the mesh histogram.

Usage

By typing 'MeshHistogram -' the following options (format description default) are printed:

Usage: MeshHistogram (see MeshHistogram.html for complete usage)

%S in mesh filename [required]

%S in histogram filename [required]

-bin_size %F set bin size [automatic scaling]

Detailed Usage

%S in mesh filename [required]

The name of the VRML indexed face set for which the histogram is being computed.

%S in histogram filename [required]

The name of the XMGR format histogram of edge lengths computed for the input mesh.

-bin_size %F set bin size [automatic scaling]

Sets the size of the bins in the mesh. It should be a fraction of the mesh resolution. If this parameter is not set, then the histogram is automatically scaled.

Examples

To generate a edge length histogram histo.xmgr for valve.model.wrl enter:

MeshHistogram valve.model.wrl histo.xmgr

The histogram can then be viewed with the plotting program XMGR.