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[Dennis Endt <>]

Monique Teillaud schrieb:
> If you are lucky (= your points really don't belong to a plane
> parallel to any xy,xz,yz plane), you will get the same triangulation
> three times, which is not what you want (I guess so). Yhen using one
> of these random traits should give you what you want.
> If you are less lucky, one of the computationa will crash. Then, use
> one of the other two.
> I'm afraid that's the best you can do if you don't know anything about
> your data, except the fact that they are almost coplanar.
>
> best,
>     Monique Teillaud

Hi,

thanks so far for your help.

My last question is:
How can I check if a computational will crash? What is the best method
for this?

I tried to use is_valid(), but this didn`t worked. Is it enough to check
for the number_of_vertices != 0 of a fassade?

Best,
Dennis