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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 05/10/2012 12:07 AM, David Canino wrote:
> Dear CGAL users,
>
> I am new about CGAL, and I wanna to study this CGAL. In my research, I
> need to represent non-manifold simplicial complexes with an arbitrary
> domain (top edges, top triangles, top tetrahedra). Probably, I could
> need a dimension-independent representation of these models. Can I use
> CGAL for this? Which package I must use.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David

It depends on the exact nature of your data but Combinatorial maps
can be useful [1,2]. In general, you can use Nef_polyhedron_3 [3].

Sebastien.

[1] 
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Linear_cell_complex/Chapter_main.html
[2] 
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Combinatorial_map/Chapter_main.html
[3] 
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Nef_3/Chapter_main.html