glotzerlab / glotzerlab/coxeter

Add support for tessellation and segmentation of shapes

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Since Aug 19, 2025.

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Description

Feature description

I propose adding functionality for tessellating 3D shapes and segmenting 2D shapes. This would have two purposes:

  1. Enable us to extend export functionality in the IO module to Sphere and Spheropolyhedron, since the tesselation algorithms would permit the discretization of rounded geometries. (See #272)
  2. Enable users to use Coxeter to construct meshes for use in HOOMD-blue simulations, provided that new functionality was added to HOOMD-blue for constructing meshes from coxeter shapes. (See glotzerlab/hoomd-blue#2117)
Proposed solution

To be added later - discussed offline with @joaander , @janbridley , and @SchoeniPhlippsn .

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