Eulers number and closed surfaces

Written by Paul Bourke
January 1997


Eulers number for geometry made up of planar polygons which are defined in terms of edges and vertices is

V - E + F

Where V, E, and F are the number of vertices, edges, and faces respectively.

For a closed surface the Eulers number is always equal to 2.

This forms a simple test for the closure of computer generated facet geometry.