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Remesh[mesh]

remesh a mesh region mesh by removing low-quality cells and keeping the overall shape.

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"Adaptive"  
"Uniform"  
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Remesh

Remesh[mesh]

remesh a mesh region mesh by removing low-quality cells and keeping the overall shape.

Details and Options

  • Remesh is also known as remeshing.
  • Remesh is typically used to improve mesh quality by removing low-quality cells while preserving its overall shape, improving rendering, processing and analysis.
  • Remesh[mesh] returns a triangulated mesh region obtained without low-quality triangles.
  • Remesh takes the same options as MeshRegion, with the following additions:
  • Method Automaticmethod to use
  • Possible method settings include "Adaptive" and "Uniform".

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)

Remesh mesh:

Wolfram Language code: ℛ = ResourceData["Stanford Bunny"]
Wolfram Language code: Remesh[ℛ]

Scope  (1)

Remesh works on surfaces:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image]]

Mesh regions:

Wolfram Language code: DiscretizeGraphics[ListPlot3D[Table[Sin[j ^ 2 + i], {i, 0, Pi, Pi / 5}, {j, 0, Pi, Pi / 5}]]]
Wolfram Language code: Remesh[%]

Boundary mesh regions:

Wolfram Language code: BoundaryDiscretizeRegion[ImplicitRegion[(x ^ 2 + (9 / 4) y ^ 2 + z ^ 2 - 1) ^ 3 - x ^ 2 z ^ 3 - (9 / 80) y ^ 2 z ^ 3 <= 0, {x, y, z}]]
Wolfram Language code: Remesh[%]

Polyhedra:

Wolfram Language code: BeveledPolyhedron[Dodecahedron[]]
Wolfram Language code: Remesh[%]

Options  (8)

Method  (8)

"Adaptive"  (5)

Creates an adaptive mesh with varying element size depending on the local curvature of the input mesh:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> "Adaptive"]

Use the option "MinEdgeLength"->l to specify the minimum edge length:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> {"Adaptive", "MinEdgeLength" -> 1}]

Use the option "MaxEdgeLength"->l to specify the maximum edge length:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> {"Adaptive", "MaxEdgeLength" -> 1}]

Use the option "MaxIterations"->n to specify the maximum number of iterations:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> {"Adaptive", "MaxIterations" -> 1}]

Use the option "Tolerance"->n to specify the maximum approximation error:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> {"Adaptive", "Tolerance" -> .2}]

"Uniform"  (3)

Creates a uniform (isotropic) triangulation with a given uniform target edge length:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> "Uniform"]

Use the option "EdgeLength"->l to specify the target edge length:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> {"Uniform", "EdgeLength" -> .8}]

Use the option "MaxIterations"->n to specify the maximum number of iterations:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[[image], Method -> {"Uniform", "MaxIterations" -> 1}]

Applications  (1)

Adaptive mesh refinement for surface smoothing:

Wolfram Language code: ℛ = BoundaryDiscretizeRegion[Ellipsoid[{0, 0, 0}, {4, 3, 2}], PrecisionGoal -> 1]

Remesh mesh to increase resolution before smoothing:

Wolfram Language code: Remesh[ℛ, Method -> {"Adaptive", "MaxEdgeLength" -> .5}]

Apply SmoothMesh:

Wolfram Language code: SmoothMesh[%]
Wolfram Research (2025), Remesh, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Remesh.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2025), Remesh, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Remesh.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2025. "Remesh." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Remesh.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2025). Remesh. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Remesh.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2026_remesh, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Remesh}", year="2025", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Remesh.html}", note=[Accessed: 12-June-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2026_remesh, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Remesh}, year={2025}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Remesh.html}, note=[Accessed: 12-June-2026]}