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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Maybe using Side_of_triangle_mesh [1] (available in CGAL 4.7)
might help.
However, this won't give you face intersections nor edge intersections.

If you really need to refine the input mesh, there is some undocumented
code doing that.

Sebastien.

[1] 
http://doc.cgal.org/4.7/Polygon_mesh_processing/classCGAL_1_1Side__of__triangle__mesh.html

On 08/29/2015 10:30 PM, randa wrote:
> I'm trying to get the intersection surface area between an RGBD sensor FOV
> and a mesh model since I want to use these surfaces to fasten the
> development of a reconstruction algorithm.
>
> It is similar to the intersection surface of two models as it is shown in
> the following image:
> <http://cgal-discuss.949826.n4.nabble.com/file/n4661115/mxS4enXFjmWuyILduEG7SHjRQTUOOJDKC3-kbVTOGLc.jpeg>
>
>
> , but instead of the sphere, I have the FOV (Quadrahedron shape) and instead
> of the cube model, I have another model shape,
> The blue part of the cube surface shown in the third part of the image is
> the intersection surface needed to be found.
>
> The result should be the visible surface in the Field of view similar to the
> concept of occlusion culling
>
> Is there a function in CGAL that can find this visible surface  ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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