OpenMesh
Extending the mesh using traits

This examples shows:

  • How to extend the behaviour of entities using traits.

In the previous tutorial we used attributes and changed the type of the data types Point, Normal, TexCoord, and Color. But we can do even more with traits. We can change the behaviour of the mesh entities Vertex, Face, Edge, and Halfedge.

One goal in the design was a highly customizable data structure. Using the traits technique makes it possible. We pick up the smoother again and show an alternative way to implement it. Now we place the necessary data and the functions in the vertex itself

Definition: smooth.cc:9
Base class for all traits.
Definition: Traits.hh:122
{
// store barycenter of neighbors in this member
{
private:
Point cog_;
public:
VertexT() : cog_( Point(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f ) ) { }
const Point& cog() const { return cog_; }
void set_cog(const Point& _p) { cog_ = _p; }
};
#define VertexTraits
Macro for defining the vertex traits. See Specifying your MyMesh.
Definition: Traits.hh:91

Note the definition of the vertex entity. We use the supplied define VertexTraits (which resolves in a rather inconvenient template definition). Similary we can use the defines FaceTraits, EdgeTraits, and HalfedgeTraits to extend these entities. Now we enhanced the vertex, with the additional member variable cog_, and the get/set-method pair to access the new member.

As before we compute in a first loop the barycenters for all vertices and store the information at the vertices

mesh.data(*v_it).set_cog(cog / valence);

In the second pass we set the new position of each vertex

mesh.set_point( *v_it, mesh.data(*v_it).cog());

It looks neat, but on the other hand we can't remove the data anymore as we could do with properties! By using traits one creates a 'static' configuration, which can't be changed during runtime.

The complete source looks like this:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
// -------------------- OpenMesh
#include <OpenMesh/Core/IO/MeshIO.hh>
#include <OpenMesh/Core/Mesh/TriMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh>
{
// store barycenter of neighbors in this member
{
private:
Point cog_;
public:
VertexT() : cog_( Point(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f ) ) { }
const Point& cog() const { return cog_; }
void set_cog(const Point& _p) { cog_ = _p; }
};
};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define SIZEOF( entity,b ) \
std::cout << _prefix << "size of " << #entity << ": " \
<< sizeof( entity ) << std::endl; \
b += sizeof( entity )
template <typename Mesh>
void print_size(const std::string& _prefix = "")
{
size_t total=0;
SIZEOF(typename Mesh::Vertex, total);
SIZEOF(typename Mesh::Halfedge, total);
SIZEOF(typename Mesh::Edge, total);
SIZEOF(typename Mesh::Face, total);
std::cout << _prefix << "total: " << total << std::endl;
}
#undef SIZEOF
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
MyMesh mesh;
// check command line options
if (argc < 4 || argc > 5)
{
std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " [-s] #iterations infile outfile\n";
exit(1);
}
int idx=2;
// display size of entities of the enhanced and the default mesh type
// when commandline option '-s' has been used.
if (argc == 5)
{
if (std::string("-s")==argv[idx-1])
{
std::cout << "Enhanced mesh size statistics\n";
print_size<MyMesh>(" ");
std::cout << "Default mesh size statistics\n";
print_size<MyMesh2>(" ");
}
// else ignore!
++idx;
}
// read mesh from stdin
std::cout<< " Input mesh: " << argv[idx] << std::endl;
if ( ! OpenMesh::IO::read_mesh(mesh, argv[idx]) )
{
std::cerr << "Error: Cannot read mesh from " << argv[idx] << std::endl;
return 0;
}
// smoothing mesh argv[1] times
MyMesh::VertexIter v_it, v_end(mesh.vertices_end());
MyMesh::Scalar valence;
unsigned int i, N(atoi(argv[idx-1]));
std::cout<< "Smooth mesh " << N << " times\n";
for (i=0; i < N; ++i)
{
for (v_it=mesh.vertices_begin(); v_it!=v_end; ++v_it)
{
cog[0] = cog[1] = cog[2] = valence = 0.0;
for (vv_it=mesh.vv_iter(*v_it); vv_it.is_valid(); ++vv_it)
{
cog += mesh.point( *vv_it );
++valence;
}
mesh.data(*v_it).set_cog(cog / valence);
}
for (v_it=mesh.vertices_begin(); v_it!=v_end; ++v_it)
if (!mesh.is_boundary(*v_it))
mesh.set_point( *v_it, mesh.data(*v_it).cog());
}
// write mesh to stdout
std::cout<< "Output mesh: " << argv[idx+1] << std::endl;
if ( ! OpenMesh::IO::write_mesh(mesh, argv[idx+1]) )
{
std::cerr << "Error: cannot write mesh to " << argv[idx+1] << std::endl;
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
bool write_mesh(const Mesh &_mesh, const std::string &_filename, Options _opt=Options::Default, std::streamsize _precision=6)
Write a mesh to the file _filename.
Definition: MeshIO.hh:190
bool read_mesh(Mesh &_mesh, const std::string &_filename)
Read a mesh from file _filename.
Definition: MeshIO.hh:95
Triangle mesh based on the ArrayKernel.
Definition: TriMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh:96
Polygonal mesh based on the ArrayKernel.
Definition: PolyMesh_ArrayKernelT.hh:96
Kernel::Scalar Scalar
Scalar type.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:110
Kernel::Halfedge Halfedge
Halfedge type.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:126
Kernel::Face Face
Face type.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:130
Kernel::Edge Edge
Edge type.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:128
Kernel::VertexVertexIter VertexVertexIter
Circulator.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:162
Kernel::Point Point
Coordinate type.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:112
Kernel::VertexIter VertexIter
Scalar type.
Definition: PolyMeshT.hh:143
This file defines the default traits and some convenience macros.

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