Surface_mesh_skeletonization/MCF_Skeleton_example.cpp

#include <CGAL/Polyhedron_3.h>
#include <CGAL/Simple_cartesian.h>
#include <CGAL/Mean_curvature_flow_skeletonization.h>
 
#include <fstream>
 
typedef CGAL::Simple_cartesian<double>                        Kernel;
typedef Kernel::Point_3                                       Point;
typedef CGAL::Polyhedron_3<Kernel>                            Polyhedron;
 
typedef boost::graph_traits<Polyhedron>::vertex_descriptor    vertex_descriptor;
 
typedef CGAL::Mean_curvature_flow_skeletonization<Polyhedron> Skeletonization;
typedef Skeletonization::Skeleton                             Skeleton;
 
typedef Skeleton::vertex_descriptor                           Skeleton_vertex;
typedef Skeleton::edge_descriptor                             Skeleton_edge;
 
 
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  std::ifstream input((argc>1)?argv[1]:CGAL::data_file_path("meshes/elephant.off"));
  Polyhedron tmesh;
  input >> tmesh;
  if (!CGAL::is_triangle_mesh(tmesh))
  {
    std::cout << "Input geometry is not triangulated." << std::endl;
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }
 
  Skeleton skeleton;
  Skeletonization mcs(tmesh);
 
  // 1. Contract the mesh by mean curvature flow.
  mcs.contract_geometry();
 
  // 2. Collapse short edges and split bad triangles.
  mcs.collapse_edges();
  mcs.split_faces();
 
  // 3. Fix degenerate vertices.
  mcs.detect_degeneracies();
 
  // Perform the above three steps in one iteration.
  mcs.contract();
 
  // Iteratively apply step 1 to 3 until convergence.
  mcs.contract_until_convergence();
 
  // Convert the contracted mesh into a curve skeleton and
  // get the correspondent surface points
  mcs.convert_to_skeleton(skeleton);
 
  std::cout << "Number of vertices of the skeleton: " << boost::num_vertices(skeleton) << "\n";
  std::cout << "Number of edges of the skeleton: " << boost::num_edges(skeleton) << "\n";
 
  // Output all the edges of the skeleton.
  std::ofstream output("skel-poly.polylines.txt");
  for(Skeleton_edge e : CGAL::make_range(edges(skeleton)))
  {
    const Point& s = skeleton[source(e, skeleton)].point;
    const Point& t = skeleton[target(e, skeleton)].point;
    output << "2 "<< s << " " << t << "\n";
  }
  output.close();
 
  // Output skeleton points and the corresponding surface points
  output.open("correspondance-poly.polylines.txt");
  for(Skeleton_vertex v : CGAL::make_range(vertices(skeleton)))
    for(vertex_descriptor vd : skeleton[v].vertices)
      output << "2 " << skeleton[v].point << "  " << get(CGAL::vertex_point, tmesh, vd)  << "\n";
 
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}