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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hi Max,

The package Triangulated Surface Mesh Simplification in
the Geometry Processing Part of the manual
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.4/doc_html/cgal_manual/packages.html#part_XI

is exactly about that.

andreas


Max wrote:
> Hello CGAL guys,
>
> I want to know if there is a tool out of there that can simplify
> a polyhedron_3, or nef_polyhydron_3, according to a given
> criterion of approximation.
>
> By the word 'simplify', I mean to decrease, as much as possible,
> the size of the object, in number of vertices, facets, etc.
>
> For example, I want to merge the small facets that are nearly 
> coplanar, according to the criterion, into a larger one.
>
> I want to decrease the size/complexity of the 3d obj's with the hope
> of promote the calculation efficiency without much loss of precision.
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> B/Rgds
> Max