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The Visualization and Computer Graphics Library (VCGlib for short) is an open source, portable, and templated library written in C++, with no external dependencies, for manipulation, processing, cleaning, and simplifying triangle meshes.

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The library, composed by more than 100k lines of code, is released under the GPL license, and it is the base of most of the software tools of the Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council Institute - ISTI, like MeshLab, Metro and many others.

The VCG library is tailored to mostly manage triangular meshes: The library is fairly large and offers many state-of-the-art capabilities for processing meshes, such as:

Notable Applications

A number of applications have been developed using the VCGlib:

Contacts

For any info about licensing (portions of) the library please contact us: Paolo Cignoni (p.cignoni@isti.cnr.it) Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council - ISTI

In case of bugs please report them here.