Project Summary
The VCG library is a portable C++ templated library for manipulation, processing and displaying with OpenGL of triangle and tetrahedral meshes.
The library, released under the GPL license is the result of the collaborative efforts of the Visual Computing Lab ( VCGLab ) of the ISTI - institute of the Italian National Research Council.
This library has been used to build many successful research tools, like MeshLab, Metro, the standard tool for measuring differences between triangular meshes and ShadeVis, a tool for per-vertex computation of a static ambient occlusion term.
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 89 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2004
ending with its most recent commit 6 days ago
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