OpenMesh Recursive Iteration

Question

I recently started using OpenMesh, and I need to make a recursive iteration where I access one vertex, then its neighbouring vertexes and then the neighbours of those. I also need to keep a list of vertexes which I have used already. My main problem with this is that I don't know how to get the ID of a vertex, so that i can access specific vertexes.

Answer 1

Managed to solve my problem: A handle can be selected by its ID number like this:

MyMesh::VHandle myVertexHandle = mesh.vertex_handle(ID_number);

To return the ID number from a VertexHandle use the following command:

myVertexHandle.idx();

To cycle recursively over a mesh from a starting vertex, use the following code:

void graphTraversal(const MyMesh& mesh, MyMesh::VHandle start)
{

    // print starting vertex handle
    std::cout << "Vertex " << start.idx() << std::endl;


    // retrieve XYZ of initial vertex
    OpenMesh::Vec3f pointA = mesh.point(start);

    for (MyMesh::VOHIter vohit = mesh.voh_iter(start); vohit.is_valid(); ++vohit)
    {

         MyMesh::VHandle newHandle = mesh.to_vertex_handle(*vohit);

         // used to retrive point X Y Z positions
         OpenMesh::Vec3f point = mesh.point(newHandle);

         // print out neighbouring vertex x y z position
         std:cout << point[0] << " " << point[1] << " " << point[2] << std::endl;

         // call the recursive function from the new vertex
         graphTraversal(mesh, newHandle );

    }

    return;
}