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MeshLib in Research

MeshLib is the geometry engine behind published work in medical physics, dentistry, robotics, aerodynamics, geophysics and cultural heritage — at MIT, Stanford, TU Munich, TU Dortmund, Politecnico di Milano and the University of São Paulo. Below is every peer-reviewed publication and preprint we know of that cites MeshLib, with the exact sentence in which it appears.

Published 24 August 2026  ·  Last updated 24 August 2026

13
publications & preprints citing MeshLib or MeshInspector
18
universities, hospitals and industrial labs across 10 countries
~35
academic repositories with MeshLib as a build dependency
6 fields
from brachytherapy dosimetry to Maya archaeology
The MeshLib SDK library provides robust algorithms for 3D Boolean operations with computational and accuracy advantages over PyVista.
M. Stroth, H. G. Manke, J. Albrecht (TU Dortmund) and D. Fluehs (Universitätsklinikum Essen) — “Variable 3D resolution in complex detector geometries for Monte Carlo simulations”, Physics in Medicine & Biology 70(14), IOP Publishing, 2025. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/adeb3f

Published work citing MeshLib

Every entry below was verified against the full text of the publication — the quoted sentence is reproduced verbatim. Badges show what MeshLib actually did in the work, so you can judge the weight of each citation yourself.

Core to the method Medical physics

Variable 3D resolution in complex detector geometries for Monte Carlo simulations

M. Stroth, H. G. Manke, J. Albrecht · TU Dortmund · D. Fluehs · Universitätsklinikum Essen
Physics in Medicine & Biology 70(14) · IOP · 2025
“For bins that intersect the structure, Boolean operations from the library MeshLib SDK are used, specifically meshlib.mrmeshpy.BooleanOperation.Intersection, to compute the overlap volume.”
DOI ↗
Part of the pipeline Computational neuroscience

Radial Basis Function Techniques for Neural Field Models on Surfaces

S. B. Shaw, Z. P. Kilpatrick · University of Colorado Boulder · D. Avitabile · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Inria
arXiv:2504.13379 · accepted, SIAM J. Scientific Computing · 2025
“Fast Marching Algorithm can be found in the MeshLib library: meshlib.io.”
arXiv ↗

Beyond the papers

MeshLib is a build dependency in roughly 35 academic repositories — code released alongside work at top graphics, robotics and medical-imaging venues. As of 24 August 2026, GitHub reports 52 dependent repositories and 7 dependent packages.

MIT Stanford University Technical University of Munich TU Dortmund Carnegie Mellon University Tsinghua University University of Pennsylvania Leiden University Medical Center Politecnico di Milano Università degli Studi di Brescia University of São Paulo University of Colorado Boulder UT Health San Antonio Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Washington Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Inria Osaka University Lund University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Simula Research Laboratory Victoria University of Wellington Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam EMBL

How to cite MeshLib

If MeshLib is part of your method, please cite the software with the exact version you used — versions matter for reproducibility, because the algorithms evolve. A link back to meshlib.io in your repository or project page is always appreciated.

BibTeX

@software{meshlib,
  author  = {{MeshLib}},
  title   = {MeshLib: 3D Geometry Processing Library},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://meshlib.io},
  version = {3.1.3.429}
}

Replace version with the release you actually used. The most recent release as of 24 August 2026 is 3.1.3.429.

Other styles

Plain text
MeshLib. 3D Geometry Processing Library. https://meshlib.io, version 3.1.3.429, 2026.
APA
MeshLib. (2026). 3D Geometry Processing Library (Version 3.1.3.429). https://meshlib.io
IEEE
MeshLib, 3D Geometry Processing Library, version 3.1.3.429. [Online]. Available: https://meshlib.io, 2026.

Already published with MeshLib?

If your paper uses MeshLib and is not on this page, send us the DOI and we will add it — and if you would like to be featured as a case study, we would be glad to talk. Write to contact@meshlib.io.