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[Vikas <>]

On 6/11/07, Hari Kumar Voruganti 
<>
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone let me know whether the following routines are
> available or not in CGAL?
>
> 1. Genus computation for a point cloud.
> 2. Collision detection and minimum distance/penetration computation
> between two non-convex objects in 3-D. Input may be triangulated mesh of
> object boundary.
> 3. Reconstruction of a surface from point cloud data.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Hari
>
> --
> hari kumar voruganti,phd scholar   NL312,Centre for Robotics,IIT Kanpur.
> [http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hari]     India- 208 016, Ph: +91 512 259 7995.

Amenta's powercrust is quite good for generating watertight (?)
volumes from unorganized point sets. It's reasonably fast as well, try
playing with the -R option.

For many other purposes (say, visualization), a suitable VTK filter
will be sufficient.

thanks.