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Hui DING wrote:

> > >     2) From some basic exemple of chapiter 22, i saw that we get the
> > >     triangulation information by using "/ostream/", but I dont
> > >     understand what every value stands for. (the dimention, number of
> > >     finite, non-combinatorial, the number of cells are clear, but the
> > >     others i cant figure out, anyone can help?).
> >
> > btw. it would be helpful to be a little more precise. I assume you are 
> > talking about example 27.6.1, right? I'm not sure having understood 
> > your question in the right way. In this example the triangulation is 
> > written to a file via a std::ofstream using the output operator << .
> > This is described under section "I/O" in 
> > http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.3/doc_html/cgal_manual/Triangulation_3_ref/Class_Triangulation_3.html 
>
> - The output file shows like this (I understand the first 9 lines, but 
> for the others, I dont know..):

It's documented at the address that Manuel gave you
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The information in the iostream is: the dimension, the number of finite 
vertices, the non-combinatorial information about vertices (point, etc), 
the number of cells, the indices of the vertices of each cell, plus the 
non-combinatorial information about each cell, then the indices of the 
neighbors of each cell, where the index corresponds to the preceding 
list of cells. When dimension < 3, the same information is stored for 
faces of maximal dimension instead of cells.
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