MeshLab supports an ever growing variety of 3D formats (all the most common ones are supported) to accommodate the broadest set of users. MeshLab is thus an intuitive mesh viewer application, where a 3D object, stored in a variety of formats, can be loaded and interactively inspected in a easy way, by simply dragging and clicking on the mesh itself.
Ease of use - users without high 3D modeling skills should be able to use it (at least for the most basic functionalities).MeshLab was designed as a general 3D mesh processing tool with three primary objectives in mind: User can interactively smooth the surface removing unwanted noisy features from a 3D scanned mesh. MeshLab, an open source mesh processing tool in action. MeshLab is a typical example of such a tool, designed to help the flow and adaptation of 3D data between different CH applications. Within this framework EPOCH has created a Common Infrastructure, ie a set of tools, people, institutions and procedures aimed at collaboratively producing applications involving digital versions of tangible cultural heritage objects represented in diverse types of memory institutions.
One of the objectives of Epoch has been to provide a clear organizational and disciplinary framework to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of information and communication technologies for cultural heritage. EPOCH is a network of about one hundred European institutions collaboratively producing applications involving digital versions of Cultural Heritage material. The MeshLab system was developed by ISTI-CNR in the framework of the EPOCH Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission. MeshLab provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting the resulting meshes.
MeshLab is a free and open-source general-purpose mesh processing system designed to assist in the management of not-so-small, unstructured 3D models that typically occur in the pipeline when processing 3D scanned data in the context of Cultural Heritage.
MeshLab: an Open-Source 3D Mesh Processing Systemīy Paolo Cignoni, Massimiliano Corsini and Guido Ranzuglia