datavis

meow 2015-12-18T16:58:09.000751Z

@kephale: I wish I had more enthusiasm for digging into MeshLab code. They definitely have a lot of algorithms and, except when the app crashes, can handle a ton of polygons. Unfortunately, I think the interface is confusing. There isn't much documentation and the filter dialogs don't really do a very good job of explaining what they do or how they should be used. Lots of trial and error for me, but maybe I'm missing something.

meow 2015-12-18T16:59:30.000752Z

I've looked at the source code and either don't know C++ well enough or something but I just feel like extracting the gist of an algorithm will be tough to do.

meow 2015-12-18T17:00:05.000753Z

I know you are interested in just linking into the existing code, but I'm not sure how that could be done.

meow 2015-12-18T17:05:19.000754Z

For example, take one color filter: smooth laplacian face color

meow 2015-12-18T17:05:42.000755Z

The dialog has a entry field to control how many iterations are applied.

meow 2015-12-18T17:06:12.000756Z

There is no information about what this filter is actually doing.

meow 2015-12-18T17:08:40.000757Z

It's all magic.

meow 2015-12-18T17:14:16.000758Z

I'm looking at the VCG source for this function and it's still magic.