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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 17:36:35 yutoufr wrote:
> hey guys,
> 
> Does anybody know  whether there is a data structure surface_3 which has a
> complete primitives?
> 
> I explain my question: with Triangulation_3 in cgal, it is easy to
> insert/remove a point to the triangulation, traverse all vertices, edges,
> facets or cells, requry incident gemetry elements of a given element etc.
> So I think it can be cool if cgal provides also a triangulated surface
> data structure which allows doing the similar actions as triangulation_3.
> 
> I appreciate all your answers and suggestions, best regards

Polyhedra is probably what you are looking for. See the following CGAL manual 
chapter:
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/last/doc_html/cgal_manual/Polyhedron/Chapter_main.html

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Laurent Rineau, PhD
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Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/