Remeshing#

Uniform remeshing via the ACVD (Approximate Centroidal Voronoi Diagram) clustering algorithm. Given a target number of clusters, the algorithm redistributes mesh vertices to produce a more uniform cell distribution.

The approach is dimension-agnostic and works for any simplicial manifold:

  1. Weight vertices by incident cell areas

  2. Initialize clusters via area-based region growing

  3. Remove spatially isolated cluster regions

  4. Reconstruct a simplified mesh from cluster adjacency

Note

The output mesh may contain a small percentage (~0.5-1%) of non-manifold edges, which is inherent to the face-mapping approach. Higher cluster counts relative to mesh resolution produce better manifold quality.

from physicsnemo.mesh.remeshing import remesh
from physicsnemo.mesh.primitives.surfaces import sphere_icosahedral

mesh = sphere_icosahedral.load(subdivisions=3)
remeshed = remesh(mesh, n_clusters=100)
print(remeshed.n_cells)  # approximately 200 triangles

API Reference#