TRIANGULATION_REFINE
Refine a Triangulation


TRIANGULATION_REFINE is an executable FORTRAN90 program, using double precision arithmetic, which reads information describing a triangulation of a set of points and creates a refined triangulation.

The refined triangulation is created by dividing each triangle into four similar subtriangles. The mesh size parameter h will be halved by such a procedure. If the input triangulation is Delaunay, then so will be the output triangulation.

The program can handle triangulations that use 3 or 6 nodes per triangle.

The input and output files use the simple TABLE format; comment lines begin with a "#" character. Otherwise, each line of the file contains one set of information, either the coordinates of a node (for a node file), or the indices of nodes that make up a triangle, (for a triangle file).

The input file nodes.txt contains the node information for the triangulation. Each data line contains the X and Y coordinates of a single node.

The input file triangles.txt contains the triangle information for the triangulation. Each line contains the indices of 3 or 6 nodes that form a triangle.

Usage:

triangulation_refine nodes.txt triangles.txt
The program creates a new node file called nodes.ref.txt and a new triangle file called triangles.ref.txt.

Related Data and Programs:

TABLE is the format used for the input and output files.

TABLE_DELAUNAY is an executable FORTRAN90 program which can read a file of point coordinates and construct the Delaunay triangulation for that set of points.

TET_MESH_REFINE is an executable FORTRAN90 program which can refine a tet mesh.

TRIANGLE is an executable C program which computes a triangulation of a geometric region.

TRIANGULATION is a FORTRAN90 library of routines for carrying out various operations on order 3 ("linear") or order 6 ("quadratic") triangulations.

TRIANGULATION_BOUNDARY_NODES is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a triangulation, determines which nodes lie on the boundary, and writes their coordinates to a file.

TRIANGULATION_DISPLAY_OPEN_GL is an executable C++ program which reads files defining a triangulation and displays an image using Open GL.

TRIANGULATION_L2Q is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a 3-node triangulation and generates midside nodes and writes out the corresponding 6-node triangulation.

TRIANGULATION_MASK is an executable FORTRAN90 program, which takes an existing triangulation and deletes triangles and their corresponding nodes as requested by the user.

TRIANGULATION_ORDER3 is a directory which contains a description and examples of order 3 triangulations.

TRIANGULATION_ORDER6 is a directory which contains a description and examples of order 6 triangulations.

TRIANGULATION_ORIENT is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a triangulation, makes sure that every triangle has positive orientation, and if not, writes a corrected triangle file.

TRIANGULATION_PLOT is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a triangulation and creates a PostScript image of the nodes and triangles.

TRIANGULATION_Q2L is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a 6-node triangulation, and subdivides each triangle into 4 3-node triangles, writing the resulting triangulation to a file.

TRIANGULATION_QUALITY is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a triangulation and computes a number of quality measures.

TRIANGULATION_RCM is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a triangulation, determines an ordering of the nodes that will reduce the bandwidth of the adjacency matrix, and writes the new triangulation information to a file.

TRIANGULATION_REFINE is also available in a C++ version and . a MATLAB version.

TRIANGULATION_TRIANGLE_NEIGHBORS is an executable FORTRAN90 program that reads data defining a triangulation, determines the neighboring triangles of each triangle, and writes that information to a file.

Reference:

  1. Marc deBerg, Marc Krevald, Mark Overmars, Otfried Schwarzkopf,
    Computational Geometry,
    Springer, 2000,
    ISBN: 3-540-65620-0.
  2. Joseph ORourke,
    Computational Geometry,
    Second Edition,
    Cambridge, 1998,
    ISBN: 0521649765,
    LC: QA448.D38.

Source Code:

Examples and Tests:

BOX_ORDER3 is an example of the refinement of a 3-node triangulation of a rectangular box.

IRREG_ORDER6 is an example of the refinement of a 6-node triangulation of an irregular region with a hole:

HOUSE_ORDER6 is an example of the refinement of a simple 6-node triangulation of a "house" diagram that involved 3 triangles.

List of Routines:

You can go up one level to the FORTRAN90 source codes.


Last revised on 10 February 2007.