Tonganoxie is a library for manipluating 3D artifacts as 3D meshes, called 'Object'. These objects are a graph of points connected by edges (a mesh) and the faces of this mesh can have materials associated with them.

Tonganoxie provides ways of reading and writing complete 3D artifacts using the standard .obj file format, as well as ways of constructing and maniplating 3D actifacts in-situ.