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Boolean operations on/with STL meshes, utilizing a Docker image of PyMesh.

STLs placed in ./home/. with the following naming convention(s):

• at least one file msh_0_nul.stl, followed by
• msh_n_str.stl, with n and integer and str a string of 3 characters, specifying an operation.

The operations are:

• dif : difference
• uni : union
• int : intersection
• sym : symmetric difference

See the PyMesh documentation.

Example

Consider for example the following files in the the ./home/ directory:

├──home
│   ├── msh_0_nul.stl
│   ├── msh_1_dif.stl
│   ├── msh_2_dif.stl
│   ├── msh_3_uni.stl
│   ├── msh_4_dif.stl

See Figure 1 to 5.

Figure 1: Input STL mesh 0 (msh_0_nul.stl).

Figure 2: Input STL mesh 1 (msh_1_dif.stl).

Figure 3: Input STL mesh 2 (msh_2_dif.stl).

Figure 4: Input STL mesh 3 (msh_3_uni.stl).

Figure 5: Input STL mesh 4 (msh_4_dif.stl).

Given the presence of these files, executing the script /home/main.py, should produce the output displayed in Figure 6.

Figure 5: Output STL mesh (output.stl).