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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 09/25/2014 04:05 PM, Padraig O Conbhui wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to generate a mesh from, say, an implicit
> function which embeds an existing mesh of, say, a particle without remeshing
> the particle?
>
> For my use case, I'm given a meshed particle and I'd like to surround that
> particle with a spherical shell and have the whole space meshed (particle,
> space to the shell, and the shell), conforming to the edges of the shell and
> retaining the original meshing of the particle.
>
> It seems easy enough if I also remesh the particle, but I'd like to avoid
> that.
>
> Thanks,
> Paddy

I guess you're talking of a 3D mesh. For an arbitrary mesh, it is not 
possible.
Some CGAL developers are working on a solution to this problem.

Sebastien.

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