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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hello Michel,

this is a personal public reply as you mention my name,
and it is not the official reply of the CGAL Project.

As the CGAL Project is more or less application agnostic
it is hard to reply to your mail.   Yes, the project is
interested in people contributing and becoming part of
the developer community, but this needs a concrete proposal
so that the CGAL Editorial Board can decide if it accepts
the contribution or not.

Without really understanding what you want to do, to decide
if you better contribute to CGAL or to the CMTK project,
is rather easy:  Is what you want to do general purpose
or specific to CMTK?

Concerning the question, on how much support or collaboration
you can expect:  In the long term it must pay off for whoever
collaborates: If it is a scientist in the CGAL project, there
must be hope for a publication, and for a developer at
GeometryFactory there must be the hope for a business case,
as GeometryFactory is not funded like academia.

Best regards,

Andreas


On 09/01/2014 21:45, Audette, Michel A. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to develop some CGAL-based meshing algorithms, both surface
> and volume, while processing tractographic data, in conjunction with a
> simulation proposal. The basic idea is I would like to develop an mesh
> decomposition of the brain that is sensitive to white-matter tract
> orientation, where the objective is try to make the element as
> homogeneous as possible in relation to the underlying tract orientation.
> This may involve preprocessing based on Connectome Mapping Toolkit
> (CMTK). In the event that this is successful, it would be better from
> the proposal standpoint that I contribute this type of meshing algorithm
> to the open-source community, which could be either to CGAL or to CMTK.
>
> Would the CGAL developers (e.g. Andreas, Sebastien) be interested in
> this type of contribution, and perhaps working with me on this
> development? I could see a variational approach to this for example.
> Moreover it will be important to have mesh resolution control here,
> perhaps in a way that leads to dense meshes in the specific subcortical
> targets, where the simulation is concentrated. Or would it be better to
> send this to CMTK for example?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michel
>
>
> Michel Audette, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor,
> Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,
> Old Dominion University,
> Norfolk, VA.

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Andreas Fabri, PhD
Chief Officer, GeometryFactory
Editor, The CGAL Project

phone: +33.492.954.912    skype: andreas.fabri