Given a triangulated MeshRegion surface consisting of over 3000 triangles, with flipped faces, can I easily and automatically flip those triangles using Mathematica?
For some unknown reason the function RepairMesh[mesh,"FlippedFaces"] returns a discrete set of points with no higher-dimensional cells. A small example meshtest1 is provided later. (There are other mesh defects which I'd like to keep. )
Here is a way (by hand) which will take a lot of time:
- FindMeshDefects[mesh, "FlippedFaces"]
- Copy the picture as input form and paste
- Obtain the indices of faces to be flipped (This takes time, as there are too many triangles)
- Use "For" to flip those faces in the triangle list
- Form another MeshRegion, with no such mesh defects.
MeshCoordinates[meshtest1] is
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