Mangrove TDS Library

A library for the rapid prototyping of topological data structures

Mangrove Topological Data Structure (Mangrove TDS) Library is a C++ tool for the fast prototyping of topological data structures representing simplicial complexes, without any restriction, including for non-manifold shapes.

It satisfies three design choices:

- flexibility: a common representation for topological data structures, namely a graph-based representation, simple to customize (mangrove). A mangrove is a plugin to load in the system.

- efficiency: choose the most suitable representation wrt application needs, which satisfy high efficiency in time for topological queries, small storage cost, and high expressive power.

- easy-to-use: a simple interface, which wraps complex and internal structure, and hides internal details. It requires a small learning curve.

It also provides an implicit representation of simplices, not directly encoded in a data structure, which we call ghost simplices.

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