GTS stands for the GNU Triangulated Surface Library. It is an Open Source Free Software Library intended to provide a set of useful functions to deal with 3D surfaces meshed with interconnected triangles.

The code is written entirely in C with an object-oriented approach based mostly on the design of GTK+. Careful attention is paid to performance related issues as the initial goal of GTS is to provide a simple and efficient library to scientists dealing with 3D computational surface meshes.

A brief summary of its main features:

  • Simple object-oriented structure giving easy access to topological properties.
  • 2D dynamic Delaunay and constrained Delaunay triangulations.
  • Robust geometric predicates (orientation, in circle) using fast adaptive floating point arithmetic (adapted from the fine work of Jonathan R. Shewchuk).
  • Robust set operations on surfaces (union, intersection, difference).
  • Surface refinement and coarsening (multiresolution models).
  • Dynamic view-independent continuous level-of-detail.
  • Preliminary support for view-dependent level-of-detail.
  • Bounding-boxes trees and Kd-trees for efficient point location and collision/intersection detection.
  • Graph operations: traversal, graph partitioning.
  • Metric operations (area, volume, curvature …).
  • Triangle strips generation for fast rendering.

Home Page: http://gts.sourceforge.net/
Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gts/
Language: C
Platform: Linux, Windows, OS X
License: LGPL