vcgMeshres {Rvcg}

calculates the average edge length of a triangular mesh

Description

calculates the average edge length of a triangular mesh, iterating over all faces.

Usage

vcgMeshres(mesh)

Arguments

mesh

triangular mesh stored as object of class "mesh3d"

Value

res

average edge length (a.k.a. mesh resolution)

edgelength

vector containing lengths for each edge

Author(s)

Stefan Schlager

Examples

data(humface)
mres <- vcgMeshres(humface)
#histogram of edgelength distribution
hist(mres$edgelength)
#visualise average edgelength
points( mres$res, 1000, pch=20, col=2, cex=2)