TetGen is a mesh generator developed by

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which is designed to partition any 3D geometry into

tetrahedron In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ...

s by employing a form of

Delaunay triangulation In mathematics and computational geometry, a Delaunay triangulation (also known as a Delone triangulation) for a given set P of discrete points in a general position is a triangulation DT(P) such that no point in P is inside the circumcircle ...

whose algorithm was developed by the author. TetGen has since been incorporated into other software packages such as

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and Gmsh. Some improvement by speed in quality in Version 1.6 were introduced.

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Weierstrass Institute: Hang Si's personal homepage
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