<p>There can be much dispute on which work is considered best or state-of-the-art. It will depend on your application. However, I'd like to recommend to give a look at this paper by Keenan Crane et al. It is impressive in terms of computational speed. Also, It is simple to implement.</p>
<p>Crane et al. Geodesics in heat: A new approach to computing distance based on heat flow. ACM TOG. 2013. (<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2516971.2516977" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2516971.2516977</a>)</p>

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<p>What are some state of the art methods/algorithms to find geodesics on arbitrary manifold meshes?</p>

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Finding geodesics on a mesh?
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# Finding geodesics on a mesh?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-06-21)

What are some state of the art methods/algorithms to find geodesics on arbitrary manifold meshes?

**Tags:** mathematics, computational-geometry, mesh, geometry

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> **username_1**: http://hhoppe.com/proj/geodesics/  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2020-06-22. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

There can be much dispute on which work is considered best or state-of-the-art. It will depend on your application. However, I'd like to recommend to give a look at this paper by Keenan Crane et al. It is impressive in terms of computational speed. Also, It is simple to implement.

Crane et al. Geodesics in heat: A new approach to computing distance based on heat flow. ACM TOG. 2013. (<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2516971.2516977>)


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