Grafica 3D per i beni culturali:
MeshLab intro and basics
Lezione 6: 9 Marzo 2011
Editing vs Processing
Manual modifications
User authors the results
Semi-automatic
processing
User supervises a
process
MeshLab
Developed at ISTI-CNR
3D-COFORM Project
Targeted to supervised Mesh
Processing
3D scanning tools
Hundred of filters
With some simple editing functionalities
Painting
Selecting
MeshLab: Where?!?
MeshLab website
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
https://meshlab.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/meshlab/trunk/mes
hlab
MeshLab SVN repository
MeshLab download page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/meshlab/files/
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/MeshLab_Docume
ntation
MeshLab online help (devoted to programmers)
MeshLab blog
http://meshlabstuff.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/meshlab/forums/forum/499533
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MeshLab forum (Help)
MeshLabs fathers
MeshLab Philosophy
GPL license
Free download
You can read MeshLab code
You can freely change it
New developers are welcome!
If they dont touch my code
Effective Plugin Architecture
MeshLab is not monolithic
Flexibility
Increase code production
Decrease compilation time
You can assemble your own MeshLab release
MeshLab Basics
MeshLabs Mesh
Files Manipulation & Formats
TrackBall & Lighting manipulation
Layers Management
Selection Mode
Render Mode & Shading
Filters and Filter Prerequisite
Snapshot
MeshLabs Mesh
MeshLabs Vertex Attributes
Position - 3d coords
Normal 3d vector
Color rgba color
Texture Coordinates 2d coords
Quality number
Some other stuff (flags, radius)
MeshLabs Face Attributes
Color rgba color
Normal 3d vector
Quality number
Vertices indices 3
indices
Wedge
More than edges in MeshLab we focus in
attributes for wedge
What is wedge?!?
A single vertex is part of more than one face
A vertexs attribute value could be different
depending on the face
MeshLabs Wedge
Texture Coords 2d coords
Color rgba color
Normal 3d vector
Files Manipulation &
Formats
Supported File Formats
Many Input/Output formats supported
Import:
PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, PTX, V3D, PTS,
APTS, XYZ, GTS, PDB, TRI, ASC, X3D, X3DV, WRL,
ALN
Export:
PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, VRML, DXF,
U3D, GTS, IDTF, X3D
Raster models! JPG, PNG, XPM
Directly open and process the models
reconstructed by the Epoch 3D Web Service
(V3D) and Photosynth!
New MeshLab project file!!!!!!!
TrackBall & Lighting
manipulation
First of all
Help->On screen
quick help
Trackball Mode
Trackball mode is the starting interaction mode
Clicking on an icon of edit toolbar switch to edit mode
to turn back to Trackball mode
Click again on the same icon
Click on Trackball mode icon
Layers Management
Layer
Layer Dialog icon in toolbar
Selection Mode
Selection (1)
Selection is a key operation
remove useless/wrong geometry
Selection (2)
In MeshLab many kind of selection!
The base one is double sides selection
Selecting a front area means selecting also
back one!
Selection (3)
Select only front area
Switch on Selection Mode
Alt + drag (eye icon)
Selection (4)
Add a new selected area to a previous one
Switch on Selection Mode
Ctrl + drag (+ icon)
Could be used in conjunction with only front
selection (eye and + icon)
Selection (5)
Remove a sub area from a selection
Switch on Selection Mode
Select an area
Shift + drag (- icon)
Could be used in conjunction with only front
selection (eye and + icon)
Selection (6)
and many others
Small pieces
Quality
Erosion
Expansion
Connected Componet
We will discover them during the
course
Delete Faces and/or Vertices
Remove only faces (but not unref
vertices)
Remove faces and vertices
Render Mode &
Shading
Render Mode
Render->Render Mode
Basic Rendering Mode
Shading Mode
Shading Model == a coputational
model to simulate how light interact
with a 3d Object
Render->Shader
Decorate Mode
Render submenu
Adding visual info of the Mesh
Per face/vertex normals
Meshs Bounding box (quoted)
Principal axis
Filters and Filters
Prerequisite
Filters
What is a Filter?!?
Automatic algorithm that can be applyed to a
mesh
In MeshLab a filter changes the state of a
mesh
Vertex position
Color
Quality
Normal
Triangulation
etc
> 100 different filters in MeshLab
MeshLabs Filters
Filters Menu
Filter Prequisites
Some filters need that some meshs
attributes have been defined
colorize a mesh by quality implies VQ
presence
SnapShots
SnapShots
MeshLab exports his rendering context
in high resolution
Could be useful for documentation
Png image format
Next in line
Next lesson:
Image-based assisted modeling
Contacts:
Matteo Dellepiane
c/o ISTI-CNR Via G. Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa (PI)
Tel. 0503152925
E-Mail:
[email protected]Personal website: http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~dellepiane/
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