{ "title": "Constrained Delaunay mesh of a stepped block: exact volume, valid elements", "kind": "theory", "source": "mesh invariants: a tetrahedralization of a polyhedron fills its volume exactly (Si, TetGen paper ACM TOMS 41(2) 2015 for the definition of a CDT; Diazzi et al., ACM TOG 42(6) 2023); the volume is 60·40·10 + 40·40·10 + 20·40·10 − 10·10·10", "quantities": [ { "id": "volume", "quantity": "volume of the tetrahedra", "measure": { "from": "tet", "pointer": "/volume" }, "value": 47000.0, "tolerance": { "relative": 1e-12 }, "reason": "a planar boundary is tessellated exactly and the constrained Delaunay mesh fills it exactly: only rounding" }, { "id": "invalid", "quantity": "elements that fail the certified Jacobian check", "measure": { "command": "mesh.quality", "pointer": "/invalid/count" }, "value": 0.0, "tolerance": { "exact": true }, "reason": "every element of a valid mesh has positive volume" }, { "id": "undetermined", "quantity": "elements the Jacobian check could not decide", "measure": { "command": "mesh.quality", "pointer": "/undetermined/count" }, "value": 0.0, "tolerance": { "exact": true }, "reason": "a linear tetrahedron's sign is exact" } ] }