[PRE REVIEW]: TorchMesh: GPU-Accelerated Mesh Processing for Physical Simulation and Scientific Visualization in Any Dimension

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Easy3D: a lightweight, easy-to-use, and efficient C++ library for processing and rendering 3D data
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Efficient Polyhedral Gravity Modeling in Modern C++ and Python
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DTCC Builder: A mesh generator for automatic, efficient, and robust mesh generation for large-scale city modeling and simulation
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