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[Frédérik Paradis <>]

HI,

I am using the class Point_containter to generate and split the bounding box of a point set. I would like to get the bounding box as an Iso_box_d. However, the Point_container class only offers a method bounding_box which return a Kd_tree_rectangle. The only way to retrieve the coordinates of the corners of the rectangle seems to be the methods min_coord and max_coord which both returns the cartesian coordinate for the dimension i with the type FT.

The problem arises when I'm using the Homogeneous_d kernel with whatever ring type because the ring type and the field type are not the same and thus trigger a compilation error.

Here is my current code:

      std::vector<FT> min;
      std::vector<FT> max;
      const Kd_tree_rectangle<FT, D>& kdbox = container.bounding_box();
      for(int i = 0; i < d; i++) {
        min.push_back(kdbox.min_coord(i));
        max.push_back(kdbox.max_coord(i));
      }
      bbox = Iso_box_d(Point_d(d, min.begin(), min.end()),
                        Point_d(d, max.begin(), max.end()));

Is there any way to make it work with Point_container or will I have to compute the corners by iterating over all points?

Thank you.

Frédérik