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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Wednesday 22 April 2009 13:48:01 Sylvain Pion wrote:
> Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory) wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 13:29:31 Manuel Caroli wrote:
> >> Hi Manuel,
> >>
> >> you are right. Unlike point location the nearest vertex query is not
> >> overloaded by the triangulation hierarchy. Followingly the one from DT
> >> is called.
> >
> > That is a bug, in my opinion. Would it be easy to overload the nearest
> > vertex query?
>
> I'm working on it.

In my opinion we should use the *template pattern* (from the book of 
Gamma&al.), maybe using a CRTP, so that all methods of the triangulation that 
depend on the "locate" function are accelerated in the hierarchy.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
Engineer at GeometryFactory
http://www.geometryfactory.com/