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[Bernd Gaertner <>]

Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> > In CGAL-3.4, you have the intersection *test* (that only returns 
> > true/false)
> >
> > for triangles.
> >
> >
> > http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.4/doc_html/cgal_manual/Kernel_23_ref/Function_do_intersect.html 
>
> So there is no way to get the intersection coordinates? I believe this 
> would be available to the internal routine...?

You can also use the Polytope_distance_d package to obtain *some* point 
of intersection, if there is one, but you can't control which one you 
get: 
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.4/doc_html/cgal_manual/Polytope_distance_d_ref/Class_Polytope_distance_d.html#Cross_link_anchor_1520

Best,
Bernd.