Mesh generation is the construction of a mesh that discretizes a geometric domain or approximates a geometric object.
A mesh-generation algorithm chooses cells, their incidences, and their geometric
coordinates while respecting the boundary and any prescribed internal features of
the domain.
Typical requirements include bounds on mesh size, cell-shape quality, and conformance. A conforming mesh has
cells that meet along complete shared faces. Common special cases include triangle
meshes, tetrahedral meshes, and meshes used by the finite
element method.
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of Computational Geometry. (Ed. J.-R. Sack and J. Urrutia). Amsterdam,
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