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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Thursday 11 March 2010 17:23:20 toddoe wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Not the answer i expected... but I'm probably just not asking the right
> question.
> 
> My meshes are all delaunay and convex. That's no problem. But, in fact all
> i want to do is just load meshes that were created in cgal and saved as
> mesh file.

In that case, you can use the operator<< of CGAL triangulations.

// [create c3t3], then:
std::cout << c3t3.triangulation();

// to load:
C3t3 new_c3t3;
std::cin >> new_c3t3.triangulation();

Of course, cout and cin might be replaced by objects of classes std::ofstream 
and std::ifstream to use files as storage.

Be aware that the default mode of those operators is ASCII, with rounded 
double coordinates. You may need to modify the output stream like that

std::cout.precision(17); // sets the decimal precision to something
                         // greater than 54*log(2)/log(10)

or you may want to use a binary mode:

  CGAL::set_binary_mode(std::cout);

but in that case the saved triangulation can be loaded only on platforms of 
the same indianness, and same size of integers, if I remember well.

See 
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/last/doc_html/cgal_manual/IOstream_ref/Chapter_intro.html


> One of my purposes for doing this is to generate very large parametric
> meshes on a distributed system. I would like to generate an 'initial' mesh
> using cgal and save as a mesh file. Then i would like to load that mesh
> into 256 cpus running 256 refinement executables in parallel (with varying
> refinement parameters, obviously).

It would be nice that you publish the code of that. That seems interesting!

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/