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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hi Max,

Max wrote:
> 2 more questions:
>
> 1- I've been playing with the demo for a while, but limited to be a off
> model
> visualizer. I just tested the polyhedron simplification functionality with
> a couple of off models. To my surprise, with almost all of them, I get a
> result
> that I think definitely buggy - they are obvious a reasonable simplification

A data set as "proof" would be a good idea so that we can have a look.

> of the original ones. I'm wondering if I've missed something abvious - I
> just gave a relatively smaller figure than given as default for the number
> of edges
> in the dialog box. And meanwhile, what I desire is that I could have chance 
> to control the approximation more intuitively. For example, I hope I could 
> give the maximum deviation of the resultant vertices from the plane of the 
> original facets.
>
> 2- Is the source code of the polyhedron_3 demo available?


It is in CGAL-3.4/demos/Polyhedron/

andreas

> Thanks for any further help.
>
> B/Rgdss
> Max
>
> > 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