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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install geogram

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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

Project links

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.

Sources

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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`geodump`	cli	global executable
`vorpalite`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

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page generated2026-07-08

manager version1.10.0

manager updated2026-05-28

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram

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install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:geogram
Version	1.10.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/geogram
Homepage	https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram/wiki
Repository	https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram
Upstream docs	https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram/wiki
License	BSD-3-Clause AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram/releases/download/v1.10.0/geogram_1.10.0.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-05-28T09:09:42Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	glfw
Build dependencies	cmake
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

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Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	geogram
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

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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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combined/geogram.yml

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