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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Could you give some details on the distribution of new nodes
and how you would like them to be connected to the surface?

I don't think you will be able to do something like this using
something out-of-the-box.

Sebastien.

On 01/27/2014 12:29 AM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
> Dear list:
>
> for a project of mine, I need to modify a pre-made
> tetrahedral mesh (output of CGAL 3D mesh generator)
> by adding a bunch of additional 3D nodes. The new nodes
> are outside of the existing mesh. I'd like to insert new
> tetrahedra between the new nodes and the surface triangles
> that have direct sight to the new nodes. It is important not
> to insert any additional nodes aside from the ones I need.
> The quality of the new elements are not important
> and thus a quality-based refinement is not preferred.
>
> I am wondering if anyone know if this is possible in
> CGAL? it would be wonderful if you can point me to
> the CGAL sample or share a code snippet to illustrate
> how to implement.
>
> thank you very much
>
> Qianqian