Hi all, I have a tool that creates and fixes meshes. It can start from bad tracings and photographs. It works great for me, now I’d like to make sure it works for you too. If you’d like to link me to the worst of your source material, I’ll see if I can fix it and create a perfect mesh for you.
For context, I’m working on finite element models of astrocytes. “Intricate” meshes, 10 nm to the nearest neuron. I’ve been following the work of Jaeger & Tveito out of Norway, they’re right about one thing: charge matters.
But it’s come to my attention that meshing is needed in many areas of neuroscience and people are having problems with it, especially starting from photographs and tracings.
So, link me to your dogs, the worst of the worst, and let’s document the limits of what this tool can do, and improve it as needed. So far it’s doing an impressive job, it even works on half baked tracings from Blender. There are some things it just can’t do (GIGO, as they say), but it’ll fix holes and gaps in the tracing and it’ll attach disconnected segments and things like that. If you’re using meshparty you’ll want to run it through this tool “first”, and then pass the result to meshparty, you’ll be very happy with what comes out.