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OpenFlipper: An Open Source Geometry Processing and Rendering Framework

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In this paper we present OpenFlipper, an extensible open source geometry processing and rendering framework. OpenFlipper is a free software toolkit and software development platform for geometry processing algorithms. It is mainly developed in the context of various academic research projects. Nevertheless some companies are already using it as a toolkit for commercial applications. This article presents the design goals for OpenFlipper, the central usability considerations and the important steps that were taken to achieve them. We give some examples of commercial applications which illustrate the flexibility of OpenFlipper. Besides software developers, end users also benefit from this common framework since all applications built on top of it share the same basic functionality and interaction metaphors.

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  1. Department of Computer Science 8, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstrasse 55, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Jan Möbius & Leif Kobbelt

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  1. INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Jean-Daniel Boissonnat

  2. Laboratoire LJK, University Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38420, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Patrick Chenin

  3. Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Albert Cohen

  4. Laboratoire de Mathématiques, INSA Rouen, Avenue de l’Université, 76800, St. Etienne du Rouvray, France

    Christian Gout

  5. University of Oslo, DMA, Blindern, P.O.Box 1053, 0316, Oslo, Norway

    Tom Lyche

  6. Laboratoire LJK, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Marie-Laurence Mazure

  7. Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 37240, Nashville, TN, USA

    Larry Schumaker

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Möbius, J., Kobbelt, L. (2012). OpenFlipper: An Open Source Geometry Processing and Rendering Framework. In: Boissonnat, JD., et al. Curves and Surfaces. Curves and Surfaces 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6920. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27413-8_31

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