TETVIEW
Mesh Visualization Software

TETVIEW is an interactive graphics program for 3D data, by Hang Si.

TETVIEW is available from http://tetgen.berlios.de.

Related Data and Programs:

MEDIT, examples which illustrate the use of the medit graphics program, by Pascal Frey.

PARAVIEW, examples which illustrate the use of the paraview graphics program.

POLY_3D, a data directory which contains examples of 3D POLY files, a 3D format used by tetgen and tetview, for a Piecewise Linear Complex.

TETGEN, examples of the use of TETGEN, a program which can compute the convex hull and Delaunay tetrahedralization of a set of 3D points, or can start with a 3D region defined by its boundaries, and construct a boundary-constrained conforming quality Delaunay mesh;

TRIANGULATION_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which displays the nodes and elements of a triangulation on the MATLAB graphics screen;

TRIANGULATION_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads files defining a 2D triangulation and displays an image using OpenGL.

Author:

Hang Si

Reference:

1. G Miller, D Talmor, S-H Teng, N Walkington, H Wang,
   Control volume meshes using sphere packing: generation, refinement and coarsening,
   Proceedings of the Fifth International Meshing Roundtable,
   pages 47-61, 1996.
2. Hang Si,
   TetGen, a quality tetrahedral mesh generator and 3D Delaunay Triangulator,
   User Manual version 1.4,
   Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics,
   Berlin, 16 January 2006.

Examples and Tests:

PMDC is a piecewise linear complex (PLC) which describes a permanent magnetic motor machine, with 972 vertices, 502 facets, and 4 regions. To view it, type "tetview pmdc.poly".

• pmdc.node, the level 0 node file;
• pmdc.poly, the level 0 poly file;

• pmdc.1.ele, the level 1 element file;
• pmdc.1.face, the level 1 face file;
• pmdc.1.node, the level 1 node file;

You can go up one level to the EXAMPLES directory.