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[Mariette Yvinec <>]

These labels are created by the "output_to_medit" member function
using the iterators of the embedding Triangulation_3.
You may find the code for that, in the file:
CGAL_DIR/include/CGAL/IO/File_medit.h

mparusinski wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am working currently on a project and it happens that the following
> article
> http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.5/doc_html/cgal_manual/Mesh_3/Chapter_main.html
> proved itself useful. More specifically it is the code given in 47.3.3 that
> converts an INR image file to an out.mesh file. The mesh file is pretty
> straightforward to understand and use. I notice that mesh file assign labels
> (an additional number) to each vertex, triangle and tetrahedra. For the
> purpose on what I am working on I would like to know how these labels are
> assigned. In other words how are these number chosen?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Michal Parusinski
> UROP student, Imperial College London
>   

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Mariette Yvinec
Geometrica project team
INRIA  Sophia-Antipolis