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Info about this programm:

ACVD [1] and ACVDQ [2]  are two programs for 3D triangular surface remeshing. They handle triangular meshes with any genus and any number of boundaries.

execute ACVD.exe and ACVDQ.exe to see the available options.
(respectively ACVD and ACVDQ for linux)

the output of the program is written in the file simplification.ply

additionnally, when running ACVD, a file output_1.ply is also written. It is the output mesh before post-processing using quadrics.

If your computer complains about missing dlls, google is your friend!

comments, suggestions : sebastien.valette@creatis.insa-lyon.fr

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Changelog : 

Version 1.1 (September 2008) : linux binary
Version 1.0 (August 2008) : first release

References:

[1] Sébastien Valette and Jean-Marc Chassery, Approximated Centroidal Voronoi Diagrams for Uniform Polygonal Mesh Coarsening, Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2004 proceedings), Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2004, pp. 381-389.

[2] S. Valette,J.-M. Chassery and R. Prost, Generic remeshing of 3D triangular meshes with metric-dependent discrete Voronoi Diagrams , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 14, no. 2, pages 369-381, 2008.
