# VTP_source_code

The source code of our paper:

Fast and Exact Discrete Geodesic Computation Based on Triangle-Oriented Wavefront Propagation

Yipeng Qin\*, Xiaoguang Han\*, Hongchuan Yu, Yizhou Yu, Jianjun Zhang (* Joint first authors)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2016)

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USAGE:

-m [meshFile]: input model file (current code only support .obj files)

-s [sourceIndex]: the index of source

-o [outputGeodesicDistances]: file containing the geodesic distances from source to each vertex (VertId 0 ~ VertId N) 

Example: VTP.exe -m bunny.obj -s 0 -o bunny_geoDistance.txt

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Please cite this paper if you use this code:

@article{QH2016,
     title = {Fast and Exact Discrete Geodesic Computation Based on Triangle-Oriented Wavefront Propagation},
     author = {Yipeng Qin and Xiaoguang Han and Hongchuan Yu and Yizhou Yu and Jianjun Zhang},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)},
     volume = {?},
     number = {?},
     year = {2016},
     pages = {?},   
}