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The Implementation of the Colored Abstract Simplicial Complex and its Application to Mesh Generation
Christopher T Lee1, John B Moody2, Rommie E Amaro1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego.
Abstract:
We introduce CASC: a new, modern, and header-only C++ library which provides a data structure to represent arbitrary dimension abstract simplicial complexes (ASC) with user-defined classes stored directly on the simplices at each dimension. This is accomplished by using the latest C++ language features including variadic template parameters introduced in C++11 and automatic function return type deduction from C++14. Effectively CASC decouples the representation of the topology from the interactions of user data. We present the innovations and design principles of the data structure and related algorithms. This includes a metadata aware decimation algorithm which is general for collapsing simplices of any dimension. We also present an example application of this library to represent an orientable surface mesh.
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