TopMod: Topological Mesh Modeler

Lead designer, architect and programmer: Vinod Srinivasan
Concept development: Ergun Akleman
Key Contributors: Eric Landreneau, Esan Mandal, Zeke Melek
Other contributors: Cansin Evrenosoglu, Xu Bei, Paul Edmundson, Fusun Eryoldas

Papers and presentations related to TopMod can be found in my Publications page.

Software

The software is written in C++ using FLTK as the user-interface platform. The program runs natively on Linux. A Windows port using Cygwin is available.

Videos

Here are some videos showing TopMod in action.

VIZA 657, Fall 2003 class video. (QuickTime format, ~40MB)
The video shows animations of several models created by students using TopMod.

Images

Here are links to some images of models created using TopMod. Some of these were created by students in the Viz Lab as part of their course assignments. The modeler does not include any rendering capabilities except for basic OpenGL rendering and shading (including a wireframe and silhouette mode). The images shown are typically generated by exporting the model to OBJ format, importing it into Maya and then rendering using various shaders and textures.

From VIZA 657 (Computer Aided Sculpting), Fall 2002. Course home page has links to more student work created using the program.
From VIZA 657 (Computer Aided Sculpting), Fall 2003. The course home page has more links.
- Jacob Brooks
- Angelique Ford
Jeff Alcantara's The Life Project and The Tesseract.
Jinnah Yu's Seashells.
Esan Mandal's thesis on Creating extremely high-genus/wireframe like surfaces using DLFL is an extension to the high-genus modeling tools available in my modeler and is included in the topmod program.

Links

Topological Mesh Modeling : Dr. Ergun Akleman's page on toplogical mesh modeling which contains links to some of our publications and presentations.