libigl/include/igl/qslim.h

// This file is part of libigl, a simple c++ geometry processing library.
// 
// Copyright (C) 2016 Alec Jacobson <[email protected]>
// 
// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License 
// v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can 
// obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
#ifndef IGL_QSLIM_H
#define IGL_QSLIM_H
#include "igl_inline.h"
#include <Eigen/Core>
namespace igl
{
  /// Decimate (simplify) a triangle mesh in nD according to the paper
  /// "Simplifying Surfaces with Color and Texture using Quadric Error Metrics"
  /// by [Garland and Heckbert, 1987] (technically a followup to qslim). The
  /// mesh can have open boundaries but should be edge-manifold.
  ///
  /// @param[in] V  #V by dim list of vertex positions. Assumes that vertices with
  ///     infinite coordinates are "points at infinity" being used to close up
  ///     boundary edges with faces. This allows special subspace quadrice for
  ///     boundary edges: There should never be more than one "point at
  ///     infinity" in a single triangle.
  /// @param[in] F  #F by 3 list of triangle indices into V
  /// @param[in] max_m  desired number of output faces
  /// @param[out] U  #U by dim list of output vertex posistions (can be same ref as V)
  /// @param[out] G  #G by 3 list of output face indices into U (can be same ref as F)
  /// @param[out] J  #G list of indices into F of birth face
  /// @param[out] I  #U list of indices into V of birth vertices
  IGL_INLINE bool qslim(
    const Eigen::MatrixXd & V,
    const Eigen::MatrixXi & F,
    const size_t max_m,
    Eigen::MatrixXd & U,
    Eigen::MatrixXi & G,
    Eigen::VectorXi & J,
    Eigen::VectorXi & I);
}
#ifndef IGL_STATIC_LIBRARY
#  include "qslim.cpp"
#endif
#endif