Mesh Viewer uses OpenGL to render the models.

Mesh Viewer was born under the need for quickly displaying reconstructed triangulated meshes. The current version has been developed by Helmut Cantzler and a number of various contributors. The Mesh Viewer is based on an idea and an early elementary implementation from Craig Robertson.

Triangular meshes can be displayed texture mapped (optional with bilinear filtering), solid or as a wire frame (all lines or just the front lines). The surface normals of the triangles can be displayed optionally.

Loaded models can be rotated, translated and scaled (all done with the mouse). The model is lighted by multiple light sources. Viewpoints can be saved.

Screenshots of the model can be taken. The program is able to calculate the texture map for the 3D model.

Mesh Viewer supports the following 3D file formats:
· PMesh forma (used at the Vision group of the University of Edinburgh)
· GTS format (from the Gnu Triangulation Library)
· Geomview format (only format "OFF" or "COFF")
· PLY format (only ASCII format)
· VRML 1.0 format
· VRML 2.0 format (VRML97)
· Visualisation Toolkit VTK format (ASCII POLYDATA only)
· Alias Wavefront / Java 3D OBJ format (ASCII polygon data only).

Requirements:

· Mesh Viewer requires a 3-button mouse (or emulation) in order to rotate (left button), translate (middle button) and zoom (right button) the model.
· It is recommended to use a 3D acceleration graphics card for displaying models. This is specially important for displaying models with texture.
· Mesh Viewer requires an OpenGL library and a GUI library for displaying and interacting with the OpenGL module. (the Qt 3 library is included in the package)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Port to Qt 4 and alongside rework of some GUI dialogs
· Update and restructuring of the Qt 3 source code
· Removal of LibJpeg code from the Qt 3 and Qt 4 targets using native Qt image reading capabilities instead
· Update and simplify Makefile