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[Pierre Alliez <>]

dear Nicholas,

openmesh is less generic but easy when dealing with many attributes.
although you can use boost property map with CGAL.

tell us more the algorithms you plan to use/implement, ok?

pierre


Le 05/01/2011 13:06, Nicholas Mario Wardhana a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I am planning to use the half edge data structure in my research,
> especially for edge-to-face traversal and edge iteration about a
> vertex, and I found that the representation and the operations are
> readily implemented in CGAL and OpenMesh, e.g. via their respective
> circulators. Anybody has done a comparison between the two? So far I
> found that in a related paper
> (http://www.graphics.rwth-aachen.de/uploads/media/openmesh.pdf),
> OpenMesh boasts its efficient handling of dynamic structure, which
> CGAL does not seem to accommodate, but this paper is quite old
> (published in 2002). On the other hand, CGAL's polyhedron tutorial
> (http://www.cgal.org/Tutorials/Polyhedron/tutorial.pdf) only mentions
> that the √3-subdivision is faster in CGAL, but I do not need this
> feature. Googling and digging up the archives do not really help.
>
> I am better-acquainted to CGAL, so this is one advantage to me,
> whereas I only recently know OpenMesh. Nevertheless, I will consider
> the trade-off between the two libraries.
>
> By the way, please correct me if I make any mistake here.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best regards,
> Nicholas Mario Wardhana


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