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[Camille Wormser <>]

> > I guess you would be happy to find the closest point from one query
> > point to a triange soup ?
>
> Actually, I was interested in this kind of problem, too. Right now,  
> I am using
> a method that's quite clumsy: getting the plane containing the  
> triangle, its
> normal, following the normal to find the intersection, then checking  
> if the
> intersection is within the triangle or not. I needed this in order  
> to get the
> "distance of a point to a triangulation".

Well, this method will not get you the real distance. (Think about the  
case where the closest point is a vertex or a sharp crease, which is,  
in fact, the generic case in some sense)

The software Pierre mentionned should compute the real distance.
--
Camille