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[Edoardo Milotti <>]

thanks, but  I am not sure this answers my question. From the documentation 
it seems that I can start a new instance of CGAL::Random with a given seed, 
but not set the seed for the instance of random used by the triangulation 
insertion method. But maybe I am wrong … 

Cheers, 

Edoardo 


On 10/dic/2011, at 19:28, Philipp Moeller wrote:

> Edoardo Milotti 
> <>
>  writes:
> 
>> I am developing a program where the order of vertices of a Delaunay 
>> triangulation matters, and I wish to obtain the same sequence of vertices 
>> in repeated runs. Thus I need to set the seed of the CGAL random number 
>> generator. Does anybody know how to do it in the current version of CGAL? 
>> Thank you. 
> 
> CGAL::Random takes an unsigned int as its seed argument and the
> generator constructors take a CGAL::Random as an argument (which
> defaults to a default constructed CGAL::Random).
> 
> See:
> http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.8/doc_html/cgal_manual/Generator_ref/Class_Random.html
> and
> http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Generator_ref/Concept_PointGenerator.html
> 
> HTH,
> Philipp
> 
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