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[John Griessen <>]

On 10/03/2013 03:55 AM, Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory) wrote:
> With a second though, it seems that your problem may be more simple that the
> general shape recognition. You could use the AABB Tree from CGAL to compute
> the Haussdorf between your two surfaces, and decide that they are sufficiently
> similar if that distance is lower that a given bound.

Hmmm...  If that approach computes quickly enough, one could generate a set
of orientations and scalings until a near match was optimized...  A fuzzy  
logic comparator.