mesh_volume: Computes mesh volume

In cornelmpop/Lithics3D: A toolbox for 3D analysis of archaeological lithics

Computes mesh volume

Description

Calculate volume of an arbitrary closed mesh by adding up signed tetrahedron volumes for each constituent triangle. Please ensure that the mesh is clean (e.g. no non-manifold vertices, etc)

Usage

mesh_volume(mesh, par_exec = FALSE, max_cores = NA)

Arguments

mesh	a closed mesh3d object for which volume will be computed
par_exec	boolean indicating whether par_exec processing is to be used. Default value is set to FALSE
max_cores	maximum number of cores to use if parallel processing is requested. Requesting more cores than are physically available will simply result in all cores being used.

Value

numeric value of the computed volume or NA in case of bad input

Note

For small meshes it may be faster to use a single thread due to the overhead associated with starting the processing cluster.

Examples

data(demoFlake1)
mesh_volume(demoFlake1$mesh)

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