Computing Mesh Quality

Leverage powerful VTK algorithms for computing mesh quality.

Here we will use the pyvista.DataSetFilters.compute_cell_quality() filter to compute the cell qualities. For a full list of the various quality metrics available, please refer to the documentation for that filter.

from pyvista import examples

mesh = examples.download_cow().triangulate().decimate(0.7)

cpos = [
    (10.10963531890468, 4.61130688407898, -4.503884867626516),
    (1.2896420468715433, -0.055387528972708225, 1.1228250502811408),
    (-0.2970769821136617, 0.9100381451936025, 0.2890948650371137),
]

Compute the cell quality. Note that there are many different quality measures

qual = mesh.compute_cell_quality(quality_measure='scaled_jacobian')
qual

Header	Data Arrays
PolyData Information N Cells 1740 N Points 871 N Strips 0 X Bounds -4.389e+00, 6.005e+00 Y Bounds -3.648e+00, 2.761e+00 Z Bounds -1.701e+00, 1.701e+00 N Arrays 1	Name Field Type N Comp Min Max CellQuality Cells float64 1 6.197e-02 9.911e-01

qual.plot(cpos=cpos, scalars='CellQuality')