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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

What I would do is
1- randomly sampling the bbox
2- use Side_of_triangle_mesh [1] to keep only those inside the mesh
3- randomly pick one of the points kept
4- randomly choose a normal vector


Sebastien.

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

On 12/10/2015 09:19 AM, vimarsh wrote:
> Or would it be more advisable to try to generate 3 random points inside the
> bounding box and create planes through them? (i have a mesh that i want to
> slice inside the bounding box, so after generating planes, i will be
> checking for "good" cutting planes, i.e., planes that intersect at least a
> threshold amount of area of the object/mesh)
> Thanks agin.
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