[vtkusers] question about vtkMeshQuality.cxx

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com
Tue Jul 20 10:42:18 EDT 2004


Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> 
> How about just plugging a quality library with the metrics already 
> implemented into VTK?  Instead of reimplementing them.
> This "verdict" library is LGPL and much research has gone into it, as 
> well as work to make it efficient.
> http://cubit.sandia.gov/verdict/
> It supports, hexahedrons, tetrahedrons, triangle, quadrilateral, as well 
> as simple information about wedges and pyramids.
> For example, for tetrahedrons, it does calculations for aspect, volume, 
> condition number, jacobian, shear, shape, relative size, and shape and 
> size.  There's many calculations it can do for most element types.

Sound good, but keep in mind that the LGPL license is incompatible with 
VTK's license

Mathieu





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