Smooth Triangulated Mesh

Accurate smoothing of triangulated patch / mesh

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This function smooths a triangulated Mesh / Patch.

Supports accurate curvature flow smoothing. Which smooths in the direction of the normal keeping the edge ratio's the same.
Also supports Laplacian smoothing with inverse vertice-distance based umbrella weights, making the edge lengths more uniform.

Can be used to smooth iso-surface meshes, for scale space and simplification of patches.

Literature:
Mathieu Desbrun et al. "Implicit Faring of Irregular Meshes using Diffusion and Curvature Flow"
Alexander Belyaev. "Curvature Estimation"

Code:
The code is written in Matlab and partly in c-code for speed up reasons.

Comments:
Please leave a comment in case of a bug, like the code, or know a good improvement.

Cite As

Dirk-Jan Kroon (2026). Smooth Triangulated Mesh (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/26710-smooth-triangulated-mesh), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired: Export Voxel Data

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.1.0.0

Comments "\\" to "\* *\". Now the code works with the Linux Gcc compiler.

1.0.0.0