Volume mesh
Polygonal representation of the interior volume of an object
In 3D computer graphics and modeling, volumetric meshes are a polygonal representation of the interior volume of an object. Unlike polygon meshes, which represent only the surface as polygons, volumetric meshes also discretize the interior structure of the object.
Applications
One application of volumetric meshes is in finite element analysis, which may use regular or irregular volumetric meshes to compute internal stresses and forces in an object throughout the entire volume of the object. [1]
Volume meshes may also be used for portal rendering.
See also
- B-rep
- Voxels
- Hypergraph
- Volume rendering
References
- ^ "Volume Mesh Generation for Numerical Flow Simulations using Catmull-Clark and Surface Approximation Methods" (PDF).
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Mesh generation
- Polygon mesh
- Triangle mesh
- Volume mesh
- Laplacian smoothing
- Parallel mesh generation
- Stretched grid method
- Chew's second algorithm
- Image-based meshing
- Marching cubes
- Marching tetrahedra
- Principles of Grid Generation
- Regular grid
- Ruppert's algorithm
- Tessellation
- Unstructured grid
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