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Programming library of geometric algorithms. Version 1.10.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-28. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#geogram.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install geogram

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#geogram

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ge/geogram/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S geogram

Arch Linux sync databases · geogram · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Ubuntu aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install geogram

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · geogram · source: archive.ubuntu.com

overview

Package summary

Programming library of geometric algorithms

Commands and aliases

  • geodump
  • vorpalite

history

Project history and usage

Geogram is a C++ computational-geometry and geometry-processing library by Bruno Levy. Its public documentation presents it as a collection of geometric algorithms for surface reconstruction, remeshing, parameterization, Boolean operations, exact predicates, Delaunay triangulations, mesh data structures, geometric search, spectral mesh processing, and linear solvers.

Project history

The project traces its roots to sustained geometry-processing work that began around 2000 during Levy's postdoctoral work at Stanford. Geogram later gathered major software results from the ALICE Inria project, which ran from 2004 to 2018, and preserved implementations behind more than 30 research articles in venues such as ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics, the Symposium on Geometry Processing, and Eurographics.

Geogram's evolution was tied to research grants and applied meshing work. The project documentation credits ERC GOODSHAPE and VORPALINE grants and Inria exploratory actions EXPLORAGRAM and COSMOGRAM with extending the library toward large-scale computational physics and optimal transport.

Adoption history

The Symposium on Geometry Processing recognized Geogram with its 2023 Software Award, citing both the library and its role in making research results reproducible. The project's own publications page lists downstream projects and users in academic, industrial, and scientific settings, including NASA Ames' LAVA Voronoi Mesher, AliceVision, PyMesh, OVITO, OpenGeode, R wrappers, and geologic meshing tools.

How it is used

Practitioners use Geogram as a geometry kernel and command-line toolkit for meshes, Voronoi and Delaunay computations, robust predicates, reconstruction, remeshing, CSG, and geometry-processing research prototypes. Package users also encounter companion tools such as `geodump` and `vorpalite` for inspecting geometry data and running mesh-oriented workflows.

Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, Geogram is notable because it packages a research-grade geometry-processing codebase with a wide dependency surface and long-running upstream release history. It sits in the same practical space as other mesh-processing libraries, but its appeal comes from reproducible research algorithms and a ready-to-install command-line surface for computational geometry experiments.

Timeline

  • 2000: Development effort began during Bruno Levy's postdoctoral work at Stanford.
  • 2004-2018: ALICE Inria project produced many of the research results later collected in Geogram.
  • 2023: Geogram received the Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award.

Related projects

  • Graphite is an experimental 3D modeler built around Geogram. The Geogram wiki also links related wrappers and downstream users such as Julia and Rust bindings, AliceVision, PyMesh, OVITO, OpenGeode, and RGeogram.

security posture

Risk level: green

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:library-like

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

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executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
geodumpexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
vorpaliteexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.10.0
manager updated2026-05-28
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:geogram
Version1.10.0
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram/wiki
Repositoryhttps://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram
Last updated2026-05-28T09:09:42Z
Pulseupdated
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

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Nix95%

geogram

nix profile install nixpkgs#geogram
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Geogram
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/geogram/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

geogram 1.8.5-1

Programming library with geometric algorithms

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram

sudo apt install geogram
  • Section: multiverse/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Geogram
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: geogram from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libgeogram-dev 1.8.5-1

Programming library with geometric algorithms

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram

sudo apt install libgeogram-dev
  • Section: multiverse/libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: geogram
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Geogram
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgeogram-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libgeogram-doc 1.8.5-1

Programming library with geometric algorithms

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram

sudo apt install libgeogram-doc
  • Section: multiverse/doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: geogram
  • 2 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Geogram
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgeogram-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libgeogram1 1.8.5-1

Programming library with geometric algorithms

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram

sudo apt install libgeogram1
  • Section: multiverse/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: geogram
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Geogram
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgeogram1 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
pacman95%

geogram 1.10.0-1

Library of geometric algorithms

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram

sudo pacman -S geogram
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 8 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Geogram
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: geogram from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

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