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[Mariette Yvinec <>]

Fred Fred wrote:

> Basic question but soooo complicated to find a way to do it with CGAL 
> documentation! I have been surfing in the doc for 3 hours and still 
> have not reached it. Actually I have manage to create a triangulation 
> of a terrain and now I would like to refine it. Unfortunately it seems 
> that it is necessary to convert the triangulation to a polyhedron, so 
> I would have expected a conversion method so as to create a polyhedron 
> from my traingulation but either it does not exist or I did not find it.
> So could anyone tell me how I could create a polyhedron from my 
> triangulation in less than 3 hours?
> Regards.
>
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I don't see why you need to convert the triangulation into a polyhedron
to be able to refine your terrain.
See the example of terrain in the user manuel of Triangulation_2 : 
insertion are performed.