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[Andreas Fabri <>]

The main difficulty will be that the alpha shape
is potentially non-manifold.

andreas


On 24/03/2014 08:50, Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory) wrote:
> 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.