This topic describes the terms in Mesh SQL.

sfmesh

A collection of data types that contain information about geometries, materials, textures, and texture coordinates.

meshgeom

A geometry object that is used to record the coordinates and descriptions of surface construction, as well as the texture coordinates and normal vectors.

patch

An element in a meshgeom object. A geometry object can contain multiple patches. The type of a patch can be Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, or IndexSurface.

texture

Texture mapping information, including the width, height, compression method, and binary texture data.

material

A collection of visual attributes of the surface of an sfmesh object, including the color, texture, smoothness, transparency, reflectivity, refractive index, and luminosity of the surface of the model object.