HexaLab.net: an online viewer for hexahedral meshes

TL;DR

HexaLab is a WebGL-based online tool for real-time visualization, analysis, and sharing of hexahedral meshes, aiding practitioners and researchers in quality assessment and mesh improvement.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive online platform for hexahedral mesh visualization, analysis, and sharing, supporting quality assessment and research collaboration.

Findings

Supports diverse visualization and inspection tools

Provides access to a repository of recent hexmesh datasets

Facilitates mesh quality evaluation for simulation and research

Abstract

We introduce HexaLab: a WebGL application for real time visualization, exploration and assessment of hexahedral meshes. HexaLab can be used by simply opening www.hexalab.net. Our visualization tool targets both users and scholars. Practitioners who employ hexmeshes for Finite Element Analysis, can readily check mesh quality and assess its usability for simulation. Researchers involved in mesh generation may use HexaLab to perform a detailed analysis of the mesh structure, isolating weak points and testing new solutions to improve on the state of the art and generate high quality images. To this end, we support a wide variety of visualization and volume inspection tools. Our system offers also immediate access to a repository containing all the publicly available meshes produced with the most recent techniques for hexmesh generation. We believe HexaLab, providing a common tool for visualizing, assessing and distributing results, will push forward the recent strive for replicability in our scientific community.