Smoothing

Mesh smoothing effectively reduces noise in the input surface. Especially meshes coming from 3D scanning and reconstruction typically contain noise.

PMP provides two different methods for smoothing, explicit and implicit Laplacian smoothing.

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Note

This algorithm works on general polygon meshes.

Explicit Laplacian smoothing

Explicit Laplacian can be controlled by the following parameters:

• iterations The number of iterations performed.
• use_uniform_laplace Use uniform or cotan Laplacian. Default: cotan.

See also pmp::explicit_smoothing().

Implicit Laplacian smoothing

• timestep The time step taken.
• iterations The number of iterations performed.
• use_uniform_laplace Use uniform or cotan Laplacian.
• rescale Re-center and re-scale model after smoothing.

See pmp::implicit_smoothing().