Scaffolding Minimizing Construction Strategies for Masonry Buildings

This is originally from a copy of libigl's sample project, which I have extended.

This project is an exercise into solving the question of how to build masonry structures to minimize the number of states in which we are unstable. To do this, we first pass in a mesh in which each brick is a vertex (and currently use heuristics for forces), and then utilize the algorithm given in Design of Self-Supporting Surfaces to test for stability, and alter the mesh to become a self-supporting surface.

Compile

Compile this project using the standard cmake routine:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

This should find and build the dependencies and create a example_bin binary.

Run

From within the build directory just issue:

./example_bin

A glfw app should launch displaying a 3D cube.

Dependencies

The only dependencies are stl, eigen, libigl and the dependencies of the igl::opengl::glfw::Viewer.

We recommend you to install libigl using git via:

git clone https://github.com/libigl/libigl.git
cd libigl/
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd ..

If you have installed libigl at /path/to/libigl/ then a good place to clone this library is /path/to/libigl-example-project/.