draco
Draco is a library for compressing and decompressing 3D geometric meshes and point clouds. It is intended to improve the storage and transmission of 3D graphics. (by google)
meshlab
The open source mesh processing system (by cnr-isti-vclab)
| draco | meshlab | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 32 | |
| 6,256 | 4,436 | |
| 1.2% | 1.5% | |
| 4.3 | 8.9 | |
| 11 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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draco
Posts with mentions or reviews of draco.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-17.
- how can I reduce size of a gltf file for web use?
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How are rust devs doing?
File size is important on the web, so I wanted to use Draco, which doesn't have good support for Rust (though I'm sure clean bindings are possible).
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WebAssembly vs. JavaScript: The Complete Guide
No direct DOM access is a bit of a pain, you're definitely not going to write your whole app in WASM anytime soon - it makes for decently good modules though, for example the Draco 3D geometry library provides a nice and clean WASM encoder/decoder module.
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webVR ThreeJS games, hosting assets, cost-effective solutions?
This is not a direct solution to your problem. But you could use a compression tool like https://github.com/google/draco to reduce the total filesize.
meshlab
Posts with mentions or reviews of meshlab.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
- More sleepy hollow pictures
- 3D Model to STL Woes
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School project
MeshLab is free software that can work with point clouds. I've only used data in .ply format so I'm not sure what other formats are supported.
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I had facial surgery and 3D printed before and after CT scans.
I used a program called Radiant to convert to STL and then did some small edits using Meshlab.
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How to reduce the vertices of this LiDAR scan without ruining the model?
The best open source way I have found is using MeshLab
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Best way to work with point cloud files?
You could start by importing the point cloud model into a software with native support for the file format. Some open source examples are Meshroom (https://alicevision.org) or Meshlab (https://www.meshlab.net). There are other softwares from companies like Autodesk that might be more intuitive but you'd need licenses to use them. Rhino and Blender can handle the file formats but might struggle depending on the size and complexity.
- 3D Point Cloud Viewer for Ubuntu?
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Fixing mesh
Maybe MeshLab
- Software to merge STLs PRECISELY?
- 3D software
What are some alternatives?
When comparing draco and meshlab you can also consider the following projects:
PCL - Point Cloud Library (PCL)
PyMeshLab - The open source mesh processing python library
PhysicsFS - PhysFS++ is a C++ wrapper for the PhysicsFS library.
instant-meshes - Interactive field-aligned mesh generator
meshoptimizer - Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render
ozz-animation - Open source c++ skeletal animation library and toolset
sdf - Simple SDF mesh generation in Python
gpr - General Purpose Raw image format
Open3D - Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing
bolt - 10x faster matrix and vector operations
openMVS - open Multi-View Stereo reconstruction library