TRIANGULATION_QUALITY
Triangulation Quality Measures

TRIANGULATION_QUALITY is a C++ program which computes and prints quality measures for a given triangulation of a set of points in 2D.

The triangulation is defined by a node file containing the coordinates of nodes, and a triangle file containing sets of 3 or 6 node indices.

The quality measures computed include:

• Alpha, the minimum angle divided by the maximum possible minimum angle.
• Area, the ratio of the minimum area to the maximum area;
• Q, the triangle shape uniformity measure, twice the radius of the inscribed circle divided by the radius of the circumscribed circle;

Each quality measure is defined as the minimum of its value over all the triangles; the maximum and best possible value is 1, and the minimum and worst possible value is 0.

Usage:

triangulation_quality prefix

• prefix_nodes.txt, the node coordinates;
• prefix_elements.txt, the triangulation.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TRIANGULATION_QUALITY is available in a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

DISTMESH, a MATLAB library which carries out triangular or tetrahedral mesh generation, by Per-Olof Persson and Gilbert Strang.

MESH2D, a MATLAB library which can automatically create a triangular mesh for a given polygonal region, by Darren Engwirda.

TET_MESH_QUALITY, a C++ program which computes quality measures of a tetrahedral mesh.

TRIANGLE is a C program which computes a triangulation of a geometric region.

TRIANGULATION is a C++ library which carries out various operations on order 3 ("linear") or order 6 ("quadratic") triangulations.

TRIANGULATION_NODE_TO_ELEMENT, a C++ program which reads files describing a set of nodes, their triangulation, and the value of one or more quantities at each node, and outputs a file that averages the quantities for each element. This operation in effect creates an "order1" finite element model of the data.

TRIANGULATION_ORDER3 is a directory which contains a description and examples of order 3 triangulations.

TRIANGULATION_ORDER6 is a directory which contains a description and examples of order 6 triangulations.

Reference:

1. Marc deBerg, Marc Krevald, Mark Overmars, Otfried Schwarzkopf,
   Computational Geometry,
   Springer, 2000,
   ISBN: 3-540-65620-0.
2. David Field,
   Qualitative Measures for Initial Meshes,
   International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering,
   Volume 47, 2000, pages 887-906.
3. Joseph ORourke,
   Computational Geometry,
   Second Edition,
   Cambridge, 1998,
   ISBN: 0521649765,
   LC: QA448.D38.
4. Per-Olof Persson, Gilbert Strang,
   A Simple Mesh Generator in MATLAB,
   SIAM Review,
   Volume 46, Number 2, pages 329-345, June 2004.

Source Code:

• triangulation_quality.cpp, the source code.

Examples and Tests:

ELL3 is a set of nodes in an L-shaped region, which have been arranged into an order 3 triangulation.

• ell3_nodes.txt, the node file.
• ell3_elements.txt, the element file.
• ell3_quality.txt, the report from the program.

HEX_HOLES6 is a set of nodes in an square region, with two hexagonal holes, which have been arranged into an order 6 triangulation.

• hex_holes6_nodes.txt, the node file.
• hex_holes6_elements.txt, the element file.
• hex_holes6_quality.txt, the report from the program.

List of Routines:

• MAIN is the main program for TRIANGULATION_QUALITY.
• ALPHA_MEASURE determines the triangulated pointset quality measure ALPHA.
• ARC_COSINE computes the arc cosine function, with argument truncation.
• AREA_MEASURE determines the area ratio quality measure.
• BANDWIDTH_MESH determines the bandwidth of the coefficient matrix.
• CH_CAP capitalizes a single character.
• CH_EQI is true if two characters are equal, disregarding case.
• CH_TO_DIGIT returns the integer value of a base 10 digit.
• FILE_COLUMN_COUNT counts the columns in the first line of a file.
• FILE_EXIST reports whether a file exists.
• FILE_ROW_COUNT counts the number of row records in a file.
• I4_MAX returns the maximum of two I4's.
• I4_MIN returns the minimum of two I4's.
• I4MAT_DATA_READ reads data from an I4MAT file.
• I4MAT_HEADER_READ reads the header from an I4MAT file.
• I4MAT_TRANSPOSE_PRINT prints an I4MAT, transposed.
• I4MAT_TRANSPOSE_PRINT_SOME prints some of an I4MAT, transposed.
• Q_MEASURE determines the triangulated pointset quality measure Q.
• R8_ABS returns the absolute value of an R8.
• R8_HUGE returns a "huge" R8.
• R8_MAX returns the maximum of two R8's.
• R8_MIN returns the minimum of two R8's.
• R8MAT_DATA_READ reads the data from an R8MAT file.
• R8MAT_HEADER_READ reads the header from an R8MAT file.
• R8MAT_TRANSPOSE_PRINT prints an R8MAT, transposed.
• R8MAT_TRANSPOSE_PRINT_SOME prints some of an R8MAT, transposed.
• S_LEN_TRIM returns the length of a string to the last nonblank.
• S_TO_I4 reads an I4 from a string.
• S_TO_I4VEC reads an I4VEC from a string.
• S_TO_R8 reads an R8 from a string.
• S_TO_R8VEC reads an R8VEC from a string.
• S_WORD_COUNT counts the number of "words" in a string.
• TIMESTAMP prints the current YMDHMS date as a time stamp.

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