MyMesh: General purpose, implicit, and image-based meshing in Python
MyMesh: General purpose, implicit, and image-based meshing in Python - Published in JOSS (2026)
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Repository
General purpose, implicit, and image-based meshing in python
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: BU-SMBL
- License: mit
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://bu-smbl.github.io/mymesh/
- Size: 70.9 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 9
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 2
- Releases: 5
Metadata Files
README.md
A mesh is a discrete representation of a geometry or computational domain where space is subdivided it into a collection of points (nodes) connected by simple shapes (elements).
Meshes are used for a variety of purposes, including simulations (e.g. finite element, finite volume, and finite difference methods), visualization & computer graphics, image analysis, and additive manufacturing.
mymesh is a general purpose set of tools for generating, manipulating, and analyzing meshes. mymesh is particularly focused on implicit function and image-based meshing, with other functionality including:
- geometric and curvature analysis,
- intersection and inclusion tests (e.g. ray-surface intersection and point-in-surface tests)
- mesh boolean operations (intersection, union, difference),
- sweep construction methods (extrusions, revolutions),
- point set, mesh, and image registration,
- mesh quality evaluation and improvement,
- mesh type conversion (e.g. volume to surface, hexahedral or mixed-element to tetrahedral, first-order elements to second-order elements).
mymesh was originally developed in support of research within the Skeletal Mechanobiology and Biomechanics Lab at Boston University.
Getting Started
For more details, see the full documentation
Installing from the Python Package Index (PyPI)
pip install mymesh[all]
To install only the minimum required dependencies, omit [all].
Installing from source:
Download/clone the repository, then run
pip install -e <path>/mymesh
with <path> replaced with the file path to the mymesh root directory.
Development
Note on the usage of generative AI
MyMesh was and will continue to be developed by humans. Initial development of MyMesh began in the summer of 2021, before the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT (Nov. 30, 2022) and the widespread proliferation of powerful generative AI chatbots. Since the release of ChatGPT, Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), and others, I have at times explored their capabilities by asking them meshing questions, receiving a mix of helpful and unhelpful responses. While generative AI was never used to generate the code for MyMesh, it was in some instances consulted alongside other resources (e.g. StackExchange) for recommendations on how to improve efficiency of certain processes. Generative AI has been used in the following ways throughout the development of MyMesh: - As a consultant for understanding concepts, alongside academic literature. - As a resource for general-purpose programming concepts, such as methods for improving efficiency of certain operations. - Assistance in setting up packaging infrastructure (e.g. pyproject.toml, github workflows). - Assistance in the creation of test cases for some unit tests.
Owner
- Name: BU-SMBL
- Login: BU-SMBL
- Kind: organization
- Repositories: 1
- Profile: https://github.com/BU-SMBL
JOSS Publication
MyMesh: General purpose, implicit, and image-based meshing in Python
Authors
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, United States, Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, Boston University, United States
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, United States, Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, Boston University, United States, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, United States
Editor
Richard Littauer
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title: "MyMesh: General purpose, implicit, and image-based meshing in python"
license: "MIT"
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abstract: "MyMesh is a general purpose toolbox for generating, manipulating, and analyzing meshes. It's particularly focused on implicit function and image-based meshing, with other functionality including: Mesh type conversion (e.g. volume to surface, hexahedral or mixed-element to tetrahedral); Mesh quality evaluation and improvement; Mesh curvature analysis; Image-to-image, mesh-to-mesh, and mesh-to-image registration; Mesh boolean operations (intersection, union, difference)."
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authors:
- given-names: Timothy
family-names: Josephson
affiliation: Boston University
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2703-6487"
keywords:
- mesh
- computational geometry
- finite element
- finite volume
- 3D printing
- biomechanics
GitHub Events
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- Release event: 10
- Delete event: 5
- Fork event: 1
- Issues event: 1
- Watch event: 8
- Issue comment event: 1
- Public event: 1
- Push event: 298
- Create event: 15
Last Year
- Release event: 2
- Fork event: 1
- Issues event: 1
- Watch event: 1
- Issue comment event: 1
- Push event: 101
- Create event: 4
Committers
Last synced: 8 months ago
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| TimJosephson | t****j@b****u | 681 |
| TimJosephson | t****j@i****m | 1 |
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Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 2 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 4
- Total pull requests: 1
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: 1 minute
- Total issue authors: 1
- Total pull request authors: 1
- Average comments per issue: 0.0
- Average comments per pull request: 0.0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 4
- Pull requests: 0
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- Issue authors: 1
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Top Authors
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- jorgensd (4)
Pull Request Authors
- TimJosephson (1)
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- Total packages: 1
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Total downloads:
- pypi 43 last-month
- Total dependent packages: 0
- Total dependent repositories: 0
- Total versions: 6
- Total maintainers: 1
pypi.org: mymesh
Python code for generating and working with meshes.
- Documentation: https://bu-smbl.github.io/mymesh/
- License: MIT License Copyright (c) 2024 Timothy O. Josephson Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Latest release: 0.4.0
published about 1 month ago
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Dependencies
- importlib-metadata python_version<"3.8"
- numpy >=1.20.0
- scipy >=1.10.0
- sympy >=1.11
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