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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

An easy solution is to convert each Polyhedron_3 to a Nef_polyhedron
and then subtract it from your polyhedron.

Sebastien.

On 06/19/2012 05:55 PM, Tomislav Maric wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> can I intersect a Nef_polyhedron with a set of Polyhedron_3 facets, and
> compute
> the resulting volume? Will this work regardless of the composition of
> faces?
>
> I have attached a picture: the Polyhedron_3 is used as a surface mesh,
> the bounding
> box heuristic intersection test would be used to find the face sets that
> intersect each
> Nef_polyhedron, after which I would execute the intersection. Is this
> the way to
> calculate the blue shaded volume on the attached picture?
>
> Thanks,
> Tomislav