applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemat ...

, a doubly linked face list (DLFL) is an efficient

data structure In computer science, a data structure is a data organization, management, and storage format that is usually chosen for Efficiency, efficient Data access, access to data. More precisely, a data structure is a collection of data values, the rel ...

for storing

2-manifold In the part of mathematics referred to as topology, a surface is a two-dimensional manifold. Some surfaces arise as the Manifold#Manifold_with_boundary, boundaries of three-dimensional solids; for example, the sphere is the boundary of the soli ...

mesh data. The structure stores

linked list In computer science, a linked list is a linear collection of data elements whose order is not given by their physical placement in memory. Instead, each element points to the next. It is a data structure consisting of a collection of nodes whi ...

s for a 3D mesh's faces, edges, vertices, and corners. The structure guarantees the preservation of the

manifold In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point. More precisely, an n-dimensional manifold, or ''n-manifold'' for short, is a topological space with the property that each point has a ...

property..

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