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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 02/28/2013 11:07 PM, thedorkknight wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am trying to find the deviation between two meshes. For e.g. the
> difference between two sets of points defined in 3d space, and i plan to
> visualise the distance using some 3d visualisation tool for e.g. QT3d or
> some open gl based library.
>
> I have two sets of meshes, basically two .stl files. I have programmed to
> read them as inputs. Now I need to calculate the deviation between the
> corresponding meshes. For this, I understand that the Hausdorff distance is
> a possible mathematical tool. Is it currently possible in CGAL to calculate
> the Hausdorff distance between two meshes?
There is nothing working out-of-the-box doing this in CGAL.
Maybe you can find something like this in mepp [1].

Sebastien.

[1] http://liris.cnrs.fr/mepp/

> i managed to find one piece of code. but its more or less a programm in
> itself. its called M.E.S.H. I dont want to use it as it is because, 1. its
> written in C, 2. I want to develop my own application (using a library of
> course).
>
> The other questions asked on this forum are pointing towards the
> mathematical algorithm, I dont plan to implement the algorithm on my own.
>
> I am using QT5 for programming with msvc2010(32 bit).
>
> Best Regards
>
> tdk.
>
>
>
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