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[Peter Hachenberger <>]

A function normalize() would not work for homogeneous kernels, would it?

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 11:36 +0200, Sylvain Pion wrote:
> Pierre Alliez a écrit :
> > I realize that Plane_3.d() does not return the distance to the origin, 
> > which means a,b,c are not normalized. Don't you think this is an issue?
> 
> Normalizing would require additional computation, including a square root.
> I don't think it is an issue.
> 
> I don't mind having an additional normalize() function somewhere that does
> it as an optional feature, though.
>