The Channel2D Libray

Code for threading uniform, cubic b-spline curves into polygonal channels.

INTRODUCTION

The code is organized as follows:

• bin - subdirectory where the executable channel2d-app will be written to
• data - subdirectory where the example input files and empty output subdirectories are
• doc - subdirectory where doxygen documentation files are
• include - subdirectory where include files for the library channel2d will be written to
• lib - subdirectory where the lib file for the library channel2d will be written to
• LICENSE.md - license file
• README.md - this file
• script - subdirectory containing a shell script to execute the examples
• src - subdirectory containing the source files of the library channel2d and application channe2d-app

A detailed documentation of the code can be found in the file refman.pdf inside directory doc.

In a nutshell, this code implements a planar version of the algorithm described at

Ashish Myles and Jorg Peters, Threading splines through 3D channels, Computer-Aided Design, 37(2), 2005, p. 139-148.

DEPENDENCIES

The library has one external dependency: the GNU Linear Programming Kit (GLPK). If you intend to build the Channel2D library for Windows, then you can find binaries of the library for Win32 and Win64 here.

INSTALLATION

Please, take a look at Chapter 3 of the document refman.pdf inside subdirectory doc.

EXAMPLES

You can run the executable 'Channel2d-App' on the data files in subdirectory

/data

by executing the shell script 'run.sh' that you find in subdirectory

/script

LAST UPDATE

May 29, 2022

CONTACT

If you run into trouble compiling or using the library, please email me at:

[email protected]

Have fun!

Marcelo Siqueira