A fast, GPU-free 3D software renderer written in modern C++17 with native R bindings. Renders triangle meshes to publication-quality images entirely on the CPU, requiring no display server or graphics hardware. Features multi-light Blinn-Phong shading, screen-space ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing, depth fog, transparency, wireframe rendering, texture mapping, and procedural geometry generation. Supports standard mesh file formats with PNG and PPM output. Works on high-performance computing clusters, headless servers, containers, and continuous integration pipelines, making it suitable for scientific visualization across neuro-imaging, molecular structures, and general 3D graphics.
| Version: | 0.3.4 |
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 1.0.0) |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.0.0), png, freesurferformats, viridisLite, knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-08-21 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.scimesh |
| Author: | Tim Schäfer [aut, cre], Martin Hořeňovský [ctb] (Author of Catch2 (cpp_tests/catch_amalgamated.{h,cpp})), Christophe Riccio [ctb] (Author of GLM - OpenGL Mathematics (src/third_party/glm/)), Dimitri Diakopoulos [ctb] (Author of tinyply (src/third_party/tinyply.{h,cpp})), Syoyo Fujita [ctb] (Author of tinyobjloader (src/third_party/tiny_obj_loader.h)), Tim Schäfer [ctb] (Author of libfs (src/third_party/libfs.h)), Sebastian Reiter [ctb] (Author of stl_reader (src/third_party/stl_reader.h)), Sean Barrett [ctb] (Author of stb libraries (src/third_party/stb_image*.h)) |
| Maintainer: | Tim Schäfer <ts+code at rcmd.org> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/dfsp-spirit/scimesh/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/dfsp-spirit/scimesh, https://dfsp-spirit.github.io/scimesh/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | C++17 |
| CRAN checks: | scimesh results |
| Reference manual: | scimesh.html , scimesh.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Getting Started with scimesh (source, R code) |
| Package source: | scimesh_0.3.4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: scimesh_0.3.4.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): scimesh_0.3.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
| Old sources: | scimesh archive |
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