Minkowski Addition Between 3D Meshes

Computes the Minkowski sum of two 3D meshes, resulting in a new 3D mesh. The Minkowski addition has applications in mathematical morphology and 3D computer graphics. The computations are performed by the 'C++' library 'CGAL' (< https://www.cgal.org/>).

MinkowskiSum

Minkowski addition of two meshes.

• Octahedron + sphere:

• Tetrahedron + truncated icosahedron:

• Septuaginta + great stellated dodecahedron:

• Stanford bunny + sphere

License

This package is provided under the GPL-3 license but it uses the C++ library CGAL. If you wish to use CGAL for commercial purposes, you must obtain a license from the GeometryFactory.

Blog post

I wrote a blog post showing an example of the Minkowski addition (using RCGAL, an ancestor of MinkowskiSum).