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lezebulon
lezebulon

Reputation: 7994

Simple program to display 3D mesh?

for a university project I have to compute a 3D mesh, then display it. By mesh I mean a list of triangles, where each point has a specific elevation. What is the easiest tool that exists both on windows and linux that would allow me to display such a mesh? I just want to be able to visualize the mesh and rotate it, and I can code any specific mesh format needed to be used as an input. What I mostly want is a tool that is easy to install for the final user of my program.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4175

Answers (4)

victor1234
victor1234

Reputation: 921

I'm using for this purpose osgviewer from OpenSceneGraph

Upvotes: 1

leftangle
leftangle

Reputation: 128

Almost every tool reads the .obj format, for example MeshMan, MeshLab and ArtOfIllusion. They all work under Windows and Linux. Geomview (.off-Files) is also great, but hard to install under Windows.

Upvotes: 2

Hal Canary
Hal Canary

Reputation: 2240

There are some standard file formats for triangle meshes. Try outputing to .ply file and using one of the existing viewers for that.

I tend to use VTK file formats since I work in scientific visualization; that would be overkill for you.

In fact, I wrote a VTK/QT based app for viewing meshes that can handle .ply files https://github.com/HalCanary/vtkviewer.

Upvotes: 0

Dom Delimar
Dom Delimar

Reputation: 183

I wouldn't know about the easiest tool, but have you tried Blender? It's cross platform.

Upvotes: 0

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