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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 03/23/2014 01:24 AM, Alvin Smith wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> 1. Is there a way to convert from a 3D alpha shape to a polyhedron?
> 2. Is there a way to do this without using the incremental builder?
>
> It seems like this is possible, given that an alpha shape is a surface,
> and so is the polyhedron.
>
> Thank you,
>
> AS

I don't think there is something working out-of-the-box.
However, using the Polyhedron_incremental_builder for this
purpose should be rather easy:

http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Polyhedron/classCGAL_1_1Polyhedron__incremental__builder__3.html

Sebastien.