MeshLab, the open source mesh processing system developed by the Visual Computing Lab of the ISTI - CNR has been endowed with the prestigious Eurographics Software Award. MeshLab, that has a wide user base both in the research and in the industrial community, is currently utilized by hundred of thousands of users for cleaning, converting, visualizing and remeshing 3D models.
MeshLab has been downloaded more than 3 millions of times and it has been awarded at the most important conference on geometry processing "for having contributed to the scientific progress in Geometry Processing by making the software available to the public such that others can reproduce the results and further build on them in their own research work".