Tutorial_106_SurfaceMesh_Property/main.cpp

This example shows how to create and access properties defined on a surface mesh. We use per-face properties as example, you should be able to do similarly for per-edge/vertex properties.

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#include <easy3d/core/surface_mesh.h>
#include <easy3d/util/initializer.h>
 
using namespace easy3d;
 
 
SurfaceMesh* old_mesh_from_previous_example() {
    // Create a surface mesh
    auto mesh = new SurfaceMesh;
 
    // Add 4 vertices
    SurfaceMesh::Vertex v0 = mesh->add_vertex(vec3(0, 0, 0));
    SurfaceMesh::Vertex v1 = mesh->add_vertex(vec3(1, 0, 0));
    SurfaceMesh::Vertex v2 = mesh->add_vertex(vec3(0, 1, 0));
    SurfaceMesh::Vertex v3 = mesh->add_vertex(vec3(0, 0, 1));
 
    // Add 4 triangular faces
    mesh->add_triangle(v0, v1, v3);
    mesh->add_triangle(v1, v2, v3);
    mesh->add_triangle(v2, v0, v3);
    mesh->add_triangle(v0, v2, v1);
 
    return mesh;
}
 
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    // initialize Easy3D.
    initialize();
 
    // Create a mesh
    SurfaceMesh* mesh = old_mesh_from_previous_example();
 
    // We add a per-face property "f:normal" storing the normal of each face
    SurfaceMesh::FaceProperty<vec3> normals = mesh->add_face_property<vec3>("f:normal");
 
    // for each face, we access the face normal and print it.
    for (auto f : mesh->faces()) {
        // We use the built-in function of SurfaceMesh compute_face_normal(). 
        // Of course, you can write your own function to compute the normal of
        // a face (the normalized cross product of two consecutive edge vectors). 
        normals[f] = mesh->compute_face_normal(f);
        std::cout << "normal of face " << f << ": " << normals[f] << std::endl;
    }
 
    // Delete the mesh (i.e., release memory)
    delete mesh;
 
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}