Fast and Exact Discrete Geodesic Computation Based on Triangle-Oriented Wavefront Propagation

SIGGRAPH 2016


Reviews

Information

  • Paper topic: Geometry
  • Software type: Code
  • Able to run a replicability test: True
  • Replicability score: 5
  • Paper listed in the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative
  • Software language: C/C++
  • License: unspecified
  • Build mechanism: None
  • Dependencies:
  • Documentation score {0,1,2}: 1
  • Reviewer: Nicolas Bonneel <nicolas.bonneel@liris.cnrs.fr>
  • Time spent for the test (build->first run, timeout at 100min): 10min

Source code information

Comments

The code comes with no makefile, but it is straightforward to compile it (a single main.cpp and a few .h, with no external dependencies, which is ideal). Given the stdafx.h, I compiled it with Visual Studio 2017, creating a solution in no effort. 
However, std::auto_ptr is soon to be deprecated. Right now, you need to #include <memory> in  geodesic_memory.h to compile it. Some people mention the preprocessor directive _HAS_AUTO_PTR_ETC=1 but this was not useful for me (perhaps VS2019).
Data were not provided, so I computed geodesics on meshes of my own. I managed to compute single source/all destinations geodesics of a 474K triangle mesh in 4.8 seconds on a 2.8GHz laptop, which matches timings in the paper (382K triangles in 4.13 seconds, on a 3.4GHz desktop machine).

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