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[Roger Mason <>]

Hello,

On 07/27/2012 03:07 PM, vicn1222 [via cgal-discuss] wrote:

> I have exactly same question:
>
> I need to find intersection of a terrain (such as earth surface) with
> a plane (such as a vertical XZ plane perpendicular to Y axis).
>
> Assuming the terrain is defined by a set of (x, y, z), and the plane
> is defined by a point (x1, y1, z1) and a normal (x2, y2, z2), where
> the point lies on the plane, and normal is perpendicular to it. The
> normal doesn't have to be normalized. I need to find their
> intersection...
>
> I know CGAL can do the job. However, the typedef and the complexity of
> the template is beyond my imagination....
>
> Could someone please help me out the code? Even if you point me to a
> document, it won't help, as I have already looked through this thread
> for a long time....

Sorry for the sloooow reply: your e-mail re-surfaced as I was tidying up 
my mailboxes.

I gave up.  Maybe one day I will figure out how to make good and proper 
use of CGAL, but I don't have time to spends days to weeks on this.

Good luck.

Roger

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