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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

nasboy3d wrote:
> Hi.....
> I use CGAL for all my projects and it worked well.
> Now I want to send triangles created by CGAL::convex_hull_3 to opengl..
> Suppose that the convex hull is a polyhedron, the one way I found so far is
> to do something like that :
>
> for(Facet_iterator F = P.facets_begin; F != P.facets.end(); F++){
>     //get the three vertices
>     F->HalfEdge()->vertex()->point();
>     F->HalfEdge()->next()->vertex()->point();
>     F->HalfEdge()->prev()->vertex()->point();
> }
>
> You can see that this is not efficient at all as I duplicate a lot of
> vertices.....
> My question is : Can I iterate over my polyhedron in a "TRIANGLE_STRIP" or
> "TRIANGLE FAN" manner ??
> I think this is possible because CGAL is a big library but I don't know how
> to do.....so need your help.
> Thanks in advance...
I think this is not possible.

S.