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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 03/10/2014 04:58 PM, gupta61 wrote:
> Thanks Sebastian. I have couple of small follow up questions. In my case, I
> can actually get a very dense sample set for the points which should lie on
> surface.
>
> Let me try to explain my situation. I have two separate polyhedron_3
> surfaces. I would like to join them if they are too close. So I can get a
> very good sample set of points lying on each of the surface by creating
> finer surfaces using make_surface_function and sampling all of the resulting
> points. However I do not have any points in between these two surfaces. I
> can get a few points in between as well by doing some geometry operations
> and calculations. So, if this is the case, can 3D alpha-shapes package
> create a new surface which is like a union of these surfaces and some extra
> triangulation in between to join the surfaces. If the situation is not
> clear, let me know. I can try to create some figures to explain it better.

To me it seems strange to go from polyhedra to point set to get a final 
polyhedron. You better work on the input polyhedra IMHO.

Sebastien.

> You also mentioned that some algorithms are under development. Can you shed
> some light on that and if you guys have a tentative date in mind when they
> will be released?
>
> Thanks,
> Piyush Gupta
>
>
>
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