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[Mariette Yvinec <>]

you have to turn your NURBS surface ray intersection
into a model of the concept: SurfaceMeshTraits_3
and then use an object of this class
when calling make_surface_mesh_3.
The concept SurfaceMeshTraits_3 is described in the doc.


 wrote:
> Hi,
> I have included CGAL into my application and successfully executed the two
> examples in :
> http://www.cgal.org/Manual/last/doc_html/cgal_manual/Surface_mesher/Chapter_main.html
> My application is a NURBS surface modeler. My application can query any Nurb
> surface with a ray and return the intersection (if one exists).  I understand
> this is the only requirement for the CGAL library to mesh the surface? However
> i do not understand how to configure the CGAL oracle so that it uses my NURBS
> surface ray intersection to generate the points for the mesh?
> Is it possible to post some code showing more generic use of the surface
> meshing functionality? (i.e not implicit or gray level image surfaces)
> Thanks in advance for any assistance,
> Dougal
>
>   

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Mariette Yvinec
Geometrica project team
INRIA  Sophia-Antipolis