Slavishness to topology is silly. A few triangles on a model are meaningless to worry about, especially since they subdivide into quads.
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Triangles? I hope I can fall asleep tonight after reading that word. 
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The six-pole should be fairly straight forward to fix programmatically just by inserting an edge, while detecting the directionality of the surrounding quads.
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Fun fact: triangles and five-sided ngons are not only used widely at Pixar but are actively encouraged for controlling poly flow on their organic models.
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I have to admit… that… I’ve been guilty of using triangles and ngons as well, in a distant past. 
But seriously: of course triangles and ngons are no problem as long as they aid your modeling goal. Personally I’m a bit of an old school quad purist, which can become a self-inflicted obstacle at times. 
Everyone please encourage Autoremesher developer develop long as it wil surpass that closed QuadRemesher. I just now discovered that very very fine remesing is needed in 3d printing field when used correctly(not suitable for accurate parts but for art style things)
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Autoremeshers progress since the 3rd Alpha:
Original Mesh:
Alpha 3 (2:42 min):
Alpha 4 (2:22 min):
Beta 1 (0:37 min), MIQ got replaced with QuadCover and simple quad extractor implemented:
Beta 2 (0:45 min):
Beta 3 (3:27 min):
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Once more, sorry for little half-offtopic but i remeshed it little bit and fed to 3d printer. Model is not post processed.
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So what happened between beta 2 and 3?
3 is much slower and has many topology hiccups. What are the advantages?
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An extra step was added for the parameterization of thin surfaces and the quad extractor got some changes
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Has anyone alse looked at this method of removing spiraling edge loops (q-helix), it would be nice if this could be added to Quadriflow and Autoremesher.
Paper: https://www.graphics.rwth-aachen.de/media/papers/bommes_2011_eg1.pdf
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Nice! Did you also write this to Jeremy Hu on Twitter?
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No, will do next time he tweets something reagrding Autoremesher
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The developer of Autoremesher has started a new project to automatically add motion to cetain rigs, so the delopment of Autoremesher will probably slow down.
I would suggest to check it out, it looks quite interesting.
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Blender really needs a QuadRemesher quality level intelligent remeshing library that is open, lets hope development is not so slow that there will be another 2-4 years before getting even little bit closer to QuadRemesher.
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Hello, I just built a Blender Addon for Autoremesher by huxingyi.
You can find it here : https://github.com/Nicolas-Constanty/AutoRemesher-Blender/releases
Save your work before using it can crash depending of the mesh you are using (see Note…).
It is only working on Windows 10 - x64 at the moment, but I will probably add support on other plateforms if there is interest.
Note:
- I did not implemented the loading bar inside Blender at the moment, so when the computation is started, Blender do not respond until the end of the generation.
- The generation is pretty unstable (not working on lowpoly) at the moment, so you might encounter crashes depending of the mesh that you are using. Blender will be killed since I did not handle this kind of errors.
Same behaviour happen on the Qt GUI of the original AutoRemesher tool, so I did not handle it (because the author is aware of this issue, and is working toward to fix it).
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Nice, thanks! 
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The link at the Github site isn’t working for me.
Hi @Safetyman, it’s still working for me :
Here is direct download link if you realy can’t access the github link :
https://github.com/Nicolas-Constanty/AutoRemesher-Blender/releases/download/1.0.0-beta.3/mesh_autoremesher.zip
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Got it… thanks.