RatRace

A method for indirect quad mesh generation.

Prerequisites

This software requires third party libraries:

• OpenMesh 8.1 https://www.openmesh.org
• Glog https://github.com/google/glog

These libraries must be installed first using CMake.

Additionally, the source code for Blossom V is required: https://pub.ist.ac.at/~vnk/software.html The code must be stored in "./src/Blossom5/".

Setup

• This software uses CUDA. Set the according architecture in CMakeLists.txt, Line 30. A list of architectures can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

• This software uses the C++17 standard

Windows

• create a folder "build" in the root directory of this project.
• open cmake-gui and select the root folder of this project as source and the newly created build folder as build directory.
• if you changed the install directory of the third party libraries, click "Add Entry" and enter "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX". Enter the path to the installation of the third party libraries.
• Click "Configure", then "Generate".
• open "build/RatRace.sln" with Visual Studio and set "RatRace" as Startup Project.

Linux (not tested)

• create a folder "build" in the root directory of this project.
• "cd" your way into this folder in a terminal and call "cmake ..".
• if you have changed the install directory of the third party libraries, call "cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=your_install_directory" instead.
• to build the project call make.

Run

An example is provided in the main function.