aCute
A premium quality meshing software.

Implemented and licensed at the University of Florida, Gainesville
Partially funded by an NSF CAREER Award and an NSF Regular Grant
Contact: Alper Ungor, CISE Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611 ungoratcisedotufldotedu

Output Size Comparison

aCute creates smaller size triangulations. Tne number of Steiner points is almost the half of the number of Steiner points inserted by the previous Delaunay refinement methods.

aCute

Triangle

Smallest angle: 33,
# Steiner points: 508, # of triangles: 1564

Smallest angle: 33,
# Steiner points: 1608, # of triangles: 3731

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 1371, # of triangles: 4012

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 3976, # of triangles: 8836

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 2042, # of triangles: 5319

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 7334, # of triangles: 15723

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 279, # of triangles: 1876

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 750, # of triangles: 956

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 416, # of triangles: 1715

Smallest angle: 30,
# Steiner points: 813, # of triangles: 2506

Smallest angle: 34,
# Steiner points: 551, # of triangles: 1621

Smallest angle: 34,
# Steiner points: 2820, # of triangles: 6135

Plot of average output size ratio of Triangle 1.4 and Triangle 1.6 with Algorithm 2 (our method) in terms of the number of Steiner points vs. the constraint angle alpha for 40 data sets.