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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le mardi 13 mars 2012 09:02:56 gupta61 a écrit :
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for this. Actually they have adapted this code from this paper.
> 
> // inspired from http://cag.csail.mit.edu/~amy/papers/box-jgt.pdf
> 
> However this paper is intersection with rays and not segments and that is
> why this problem. Do you how to officially report a bug to CGAL. I think
> this is an important function and if this gives you wrong results then your
> later operations will automatically be buggy. Thanks.

Hi,

I am a CGAL developer (Marc too, actually). I have seen that discussion and I 
confirm that there is a bug for segments or rays whose vector() has a null 
x() 
or y().

I am working on a solution. But that is a bit tricky to do well. Do not 
expect 
the patch today.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/