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instant-meshes
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instant-meshes
Interactive field-aligned mesh generator
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5 sourcesSo does instant-meshes, but it also doesn't necessarily improve the topology.
https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes
Cheers =)
In MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D mesheshttps://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes
I ran Instant Meshes over a model of Mount Chimborazo and it did an okay job. Although the mesh was fairly uniform with its quads, the topology looked weird. Like the typographic equivalent of "rivers" running through the mesh. I decided to keep the imperfect topology, with some amount of decimation, because it looks better.
https://i.ibb.co/2nX8WfC/chimborazo.png
Retopology tools are discussed on a Blender forum:
https://blenderartists.org/t/best-auto-retopology-tool-ever/...
Have you tried them? What are your thoughts? What tool would you consider state-of-the-art?
In Unique3D: Image-to-3D Generation from a Single ImageFor mesh simplification, what about https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes ?
I know it does the thing you required, but it doesn't really do variable density (you could tell it what areas need what density and it would do that; the paper has a demonstration of this).
In The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thingThere are a few solutions much better than the old tech used by meshlab.
Specifically, fssr[0], which does a more advanced and especially sample-density-compensating variant of meshlab's poisson reconstruction, as well as instant meshes[1], which does generic retopo, and is able to handle point clouds, while still being _very_ fast and delivers surprisingly good low-poly results (see for yourself).
[0]: https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/fssr/index.en.jsp
[1]: https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes
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