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triangulation, a C code which computes a triangulation of a set of points in 2D, and carries out various other related operations on triangulations of order 3 or 6.

The mesh is the collection of triangles. Each triangle is termed an "element". The points used to define the shape of the triangle (the corners, and sometimes a few more points) are called the "nodes".

Routines are available to:

• evaluate "quality measures" for the mesh;
• create a "node neighbor array" for each node;
• create an "element neighbor array" for each element;
• estimate the integral of a function over the region covered by the mesh;
• plot the nodes and elements of a mesh;
• determine the parts of the mesh that lie on the boundary;
• sample points at random from the region covered by the mesh;
• search a mesh to determine which element contains a point.

Since triangulations are often used to define a finite element mesh, which in turn defines a sparse matrix, there are routines available which can define the sparse compressed column arrays needed for a sparse matrix associated with a mesh of order 3 or 6. The special case of the Taylor-Hood mixed element is also handled, which is essentially an order 6 grid counted twice and an order 3 grid that only uses the vertices of the order 6 grid.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

triangulation is available ina C version anda C++ version anda FORTRAN90 version anda MATLAB version.

Related Programs:

TRIANGLE, a C code which computes a triangulation of a geometric region.

triangulation_test

TRIANGULATION_NODE_TO_ELEMENT, a C code which reads files describing a set of nodes, their triangulation, and the value of one or more quantities at each node, and outputs a file that averages the quantities for each element. This operation in effect creates an "order1" finite element model of the data.

TRIANGULATION_SVG, a C code which creates a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image of a triangulation, which can be displayed by a web browser.

TRIANGULATION_TRIANGLE_NEIGHBORS, a C code which reads data defining a triangulation, determines the neighboring triangles of each triangle, and writes that information to a file.

References:

1. Franz Aurenhammer,
   Voronoi diagrams - a study of a fundamental geometric data structure,
   ACM Computing Surveys,
   Volume 23, Number 3, September 1991, pages 345-405.
2. Paul Bratley, Bennett Fox, Linus Schrage,
   A Guide to Simulation,
   Second Edition,
   Springer, 1987,
   ISBN: 0387964673.
3. Marc deBerg, Marc Krevald, Mark Overmars, Otfried Schwarzkopf,
   Computational Geometry,
   Springer, 2000,
   ISBN: 3-540-65620-0.
4. Barry Joe,
   GEOMPACK - a software package for the generation of meshes using geometric algorithms,
   Advances in Engineering Software,
   Volume 13, 1991, pages 325-331.
5. Albert Nijenhuis, Herbert Wilf,
   Combinatorial Algorithms for Computers and Calculators,
   Second Edition,
   Academic Press, 1978,
   ISBN: 0-12-519260-6,
   LC: QA164.N54.
6. Atsuyuki Okabe, Barry Boots, Kokichi Sugihara, Sung Nok Chiu,
   Spatial Tessellations: Concepts and Applications of Voronoi Diagrams,
   Second Edition,
   Wiley, 2000,
   ISBN: 0-471-98635-6,
   LC: QA278.2.O36.
7. Joseph ORourke,
   Computational Geometry,
   Second Edition,
   Cambridge, 1998,
   ISBN: 0521649765,
   LC: QA448.D38.

Source Code:

• <triangulation.c>, the source code.
• <triangulation.sh>, compiles the source code.
• <triangulation.h>, the include file.

Last revised 23 August 2019